From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5494 invoked by uid 1002); 6 Jan 2003 08:53:31 -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 3578 invoked from network); 6 Jan 2003 08:53:31 -0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Path: not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2003 08:33:05 +0100 Organization: University of Dortmund, Germany Message-ID: <84y95yka1a.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> References: <200301051859.40864.mail@psharp.uklinux.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.090011 (Oort Gnus v0.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:iBt1G7EO7kS/Ce4aMbf7XA9s1pM= Sender: news Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Speeding up emerge -s X-Archives-Salt: 366263ca-0d51-47ee-a475-01e67d7c9e93 X-Archives-Hash: 9abe3842f08511b51e780c00e609e3bf Peter Sharp writes: > In order to check for masking my script uses emerge -s and greps for masked. > The reason for this is that it is easy and also future-proof as far as > masking locations are concerned. (I _will_ soon be adding in information for > non-x86 users). > > The problem is that it is very slow. As I hope to release the script for > people to use themselves eventually I would like to speed it up. My > questions is therefore given that I know the exact category/package (ie I > don't need to search) is there a better (quicker) way to get this > information? I'm not at my Gentoo system at the moment, but maybe "qpkg $PACKAGE -i" displays the information you need? -- Ambibibentists unite! -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list