If I'm browsing the portage tree, or I see that something will be installed with a -up, and I want to see the description, size or homepage of a package, I have no choice but to search for it with a -s. There should be a way to specify that this is the exact name of the package so it won't take so long. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Run emerge -pu world after not updating for a while 2.See something you don't recognize with an N 3.Wonder what it is 4.Run emerge -s on it 5.Wait... Actual Results: You have to wait for it to sift through everything which can take quite a while if you have it merging something else at the same time Expected Results: You should be able to run something like emerge -s --exact (-e) to tell it to only look for exact matches, and therefore to save time and CPU
`emerge -s '^quakeforge$'` majority of the speed hit is because current portage sucks there are efforts atm (search bugzilla) for the next generation of portage which addresses all these issues
