Re: [gentoo-dev] new guides

[Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>]

On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 01:05:55PM +0100, Tom Flavel wrote:

> To recap, the idea was to have a C/C++ program listen on a pipe, then have
> interfaces (in the language of your choice) do things like
> "echo packagename>/thatpipe" - the backend would listen and install the package.

One problem with this solution is that we need a robust and feature-rich two-way
communications stream.  For example, your request to install "foo/bar-1.0" may be
answered by a list of dependencies that must be satisfied before installation is
possible, or a particular dependency that couldn't be satisfied (if it's auto-resolving
dependencies), or that the particular package wasn't found in the portage database.

With such a system as you describe, the Portage response would have to be placed
in another file, and tying these two files into a communications stream would become
tricky enough to make this a less-than-elegant, solution.  IMO.

Best Regards,

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