qsearch ^vim$ returns empty list in portage-utils-0.2.1. With portage-utils-0.1.29 it works as it should: $ qsearch ^vim$ app-editors/vim Vim, an improved vi-style text editor
seems to be fixed with 0.3.1 $ qsearch ^vim$ app-editors/vim Vim, an improved vi-style text editor $ qsearch --version portage-utils-0.3.1: compiled on Jun 8 2010