It seems to be issues with the --searchdesc option regarding searching for other regular expressions matching "action" keywords for emerge. For example emerge --searchdesc "sync" synchronises the portage tree, when the only expected behaviour is to search for "sync" in the portage tree. A safe way to reproduce the invalid behaviour without making alterations to portage or the rest of the system is emerge --searchdesc "info". Needless to say, this bug limits the use of --searchdesc, since it does not allow all searchterms to be used. Furthermore it may impose some sequrity problems since emerge does not behave as expected and may alter the configuration of a system. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge --searchdesc "depclean" Actual Results: kafka root # emerge --searchdesc "depclean" *** WARNING *** : DEPCLEAN CAN SERIOUSLY IMPAIR YOUR SYSTEM. USE CAUTION. *** WARNING *** : (Cancel: CONTROL-C) -- ALWAYS VERIFY ALL PACKAGES IN THE *** WARNING *** : CANDIDATE LIST FOR SANITY BEFORE ALLOWING DEPCLEAN TO *** WARNING *** : UNMERGE ANY PACKAGES. *** WARNING *** : *** WARNING *** : USE FLAGS MAY HAVE AN EXTREME EFFECT ON THE OUTPUT. *** WARNING *** : SOME LIBRARIES MAY BE USED BY PACKAGES BUT ARE NOT *** WARNING *** : CONSIDERED TO BE A DEPEND DUE TO USE FLAG SETTINGS. *** WARNING *** : *** WARNING *** : Packages in the list that are desired may be added *** WARNING *** : directly to the world file to cause them to be ignored *** WARNING *** : by declean and maintained in the future. BREAKAGES DUE *** WARNING *** : TO UNMERGING AN IN-USE LIBRARIES MAY BE REPAIRED BY *** WARNING *** : MERGING *** THE PACKAGE THAT COMPLAINS *** ABOUT THE *** WARNING *** : MISSING LIBRARY. >>> Waiting 10 seconds before starting... >>> (Control-C to abort)... >>> Depclean in: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 Killed Expected Results: Search for a package witch contains depclean in its package name of package description. kafka:~> emerge info Portage 2.0.47-r8 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.1-r2) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r1 i686 Celeron (Mendocino) GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/ http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/conf ig /usr/kde/3/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm arts avi crypt cups encode gif gpm java jpeg kde gnome libg++ libwww mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png qt quicktime sdl spell svga truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gdbm berkdb slang readline mysql X tcpd pam ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis gtk motif opengl cdr" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox ccache"
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 2365 ***
