Re: [gentoo-dev] some additions to portage/ebuild and some other nice thingys i'dd like :)

[Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 08:17:39PM +0200, Sebastian Werner wrote:
> Rebuild Dependecies - a really good idea. I wonder that Gentoo don't save
> package-information in a database like db3 or postres. It's not really fast
> to search hundrets of ebuild-files or?

We don't use a database because we are modeled after the FreeBSD ports system.
Many people prefer plain text in /var/db/pkg so that they can easily see what's
going on without using a special tool.

However, we now have a dblink() python class that handles database access,
specifically designed to allow mysql, db3, postgres, oracle, etc backends to be
added easily.  If you implement a new db-aware dblink() class, portage will
automatically store all data in a database rather than in text files.

But the default db format is likely to remain plain-text since it is preferred
by many users and is the least-complex solution.  And, it's very likely that
the dblink() class will be moved to C++ at some point... which will increase
performance by a good amount.

Best Regards,

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