Emerge tools
There’re a couple of tools to make working with emerge nicer.
esearch is like emerge search but uses a search index to make it much faster. esync replaces emerge sync and runs eupdatedb to update the search index for esearch.
$ emerge esearch $ eupdatedb $ esync
eix is another search tool, maybe even better than esearch since it takes less time to update the index than eupdatedb.
equery is also very useful. For example,
$ equery belongs file
lists the package a file belongs to
$ equery files package
lists all the files in the package
genloop can monitor emerge logs and estimate the progress.
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.
