More specific: message about limits displayed, when count of items equal to limit. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: $ LANG=C EIX_LIMIT=1 eix eix [...skip one found item...] Only 1 matches displayed on terminal. Set EIX_LIMIT=0 to show all matches. Actual Results: Message about items displayed. Expected Results: Do not display this message. Possible fix (not tested): change if expression in src/eix.cc code if(unlikely(count == limit)) { reached_limit = true; } to unlikely(count > limit).
This is not so easy to fix, since it is not known a-priori whether the call to PrintFormat::print() will produce an output; one would need a "test mode" for that function which just checks whether something would be printed and if yes only then sets reached_limit - in advance. However, such a "test mode" would require changes in every output function (and then also costs a considereable execution time or duplication of code). I am not sure whether this is worth the effort (of programming and execution time). Perhaps the current (suboptimal) solution is sufficient since its main purpose is to stop producing huge lists on the terminal by a typo. For the extreme cases when you want to restrict to 1 or 2 packages (I guess that this is what you have in mind) there are the options --brief and --brief2 which do not print the undesired output.
Thanks for you answer. I chance found this peculiarity, and report. It not too critical factor for me considering what this hard to fix.
Calculating the *correct* number of packages when the limit is reached requires the same effort/speed loss. Both issues are fixed in git master of eix on BerliOS (>=eix-0.30.1).
Closing since eix-0.30.1 with the fix is now in the tree.
