Maybe this is just my computers, but usually searching for an application on portage takes a while. So one day I wrote up a small php script to add all the packages into a mysql db (it was only a 200KB db, i believe) and a search script (both written in php). Searches take near no time at all when this is done. I suggest building this option in (enabling it by a use flag, of course) future releases. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
i think esearch currently takes care of this problem w/out the overhead of php and mysql
perhaps this should be integrated in emerge and enabled by the "mysql"-use-flag? http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=175461 it's a great solution.
OneofOne's code has been submitted via another bug, marking this as a duplicate since the effort appears to be centered there. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 51704 ***
