I have 10 machines at home and I am building 15 right now for work. This
sort of stuff is very interesting to me. 

the point wasn't about what to do localy, but what options to have for
some central management. I think that the idea that maybe this project
should start outside of portage was a good one. Sure for local db berkDB
or whatever sounds great. My point was why not make it DB agnostic so
that it can integrate with whatever the USER wants. After all one of the
reasons i like Gentoo over other distros is .. _choice_ . . 

The fact that im not a python guy ( never even really wrote hello world
) has held me back from even attempting such a feat. Writing this in
anything but python will probly ensure it wont get into portage :P 





On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 15:58, Henti Smith wrote:
> On 24 Jun 2003 16:04:58 -0700
> jesse <yoda@f00bar.com> wrote:
> 
> > > isn't db a system lib .. and installed on every machine ? 
> > > 
> > > can't you just use that ? 
> > 
> > My proposition was to use some connector lib that is compatable with all
> > those db formats. so you don't have to re-write a bunch of backend
> > drivers or DB specific queries. Im not a python programmer C/Perl are my
> > main forte, and you can use DBI to interface with many many db's as long
> > as you keep your queries db agnostic, and use the dbi methods. At least
> > with postgresql, mysql, and oracle to (some extent) this is the case.  
> 
> but since the db system is already part of the default system, why not just use that.
> It's really a system function .. and I knwo th "selectable" databse of choice is a nice to have
> but do we (gentoo) really want people to run different DB's for portage backend stuff .. and handle the bug tracking hell that will result because of it ?