From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19373 invoked by uid 1002); 5 Jan 2003 19:03:39 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 13456 invoked from network); 5 Jan 2003 19:03:39 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" From: Peter Sharp To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 19:00:06 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200301051859.40864.mail@psharp.uklinux.net> Subject: [gentoo-dev] Speeding up emerge -s X-Archives-Salt: 860a775e-e396-46d1-bac5-9653c852fd0f X-Archives-Hash: 5d3add5dc0d4f6c65be2a3289baef9b9 Hi all, I do the Portage Watch section of Gentoo Weekly News. In order to check for masking my script uses emerge -s and greps for mask= ed. =20 The reason for this is that it is easy and also future-proof as far as=20 masking locations are concerned. (I _will_ soon be adding in information= for=20 non-x86 users). The problem is that it is very slow. As I hope to release the script for= =20 people to use themselves eventually I would like to speed it up. My=20 questions is therefore given that I know the exact category/package (ie I= =20 don't need to search) is there a better (quicker) way to get this=20 information? TIA Peter -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list