From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JMISM-0002gv-Cy for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 05 Feb 2008 07:43:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7F15CE0496; Tue, 5 Feb 2008 07:43:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mo-p07-ob.rzone.de (mo-p07-ob.rzone.de [81.169.146.188]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30B2EE0496 for ; Tue, 5 Feb 2008 07:43:00 +0000 (UTC) X-RZG-CLASS-ID: mo07 X-RZG-AUTH: hXn+rC1arvT7Lf9I/zKDqjrgIkrokD1Qxy5bIqfbp9I10BMNL35Kum+fVbT8+ijLtsxDwFtCDQY= Received: from localhost (u-6-200.vpn.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.102.200]) by post.webmailer.de (fruni mo2) (RZmta 16.5) with ESMTP id Z034a4k152j3yb for ; Tue, 5 Feb 2008 08:42:59 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from: ) Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 08:43:55 +0100 From: Christian Faulhammer To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: VDB access Message-ID: <20080205084355.45ade352@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <20080205010546.38414ec3@snowcone> References: <20080205010546.38414ec3@snowcone> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.2.0 (GTK+ 2.12.5; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/NAlUtOCWDGioOx6VrLqEs5u"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: f47818fd-b562-47a6-b30f-93127ebfa7bc X-Archives-Hash: 5fc57ebfcc33c82eb695615029316d0f --Sig_/NAlUtOCWDGioOx6VrLqEs5u Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, Ciaran McCreesh : > The following things access VDB by hand: > * gnome2-utils.eclass. Will be fixed once a portage with proper > env saving goes stable, which isn't too far off. Bug 155993. >=20 > * net-misc/l7-filter. This can be fixed as soon as portage with proper > env saving goes stable. >=20 > * kde.eclass, for slot_rebuild. This seems like it's a really dumb > hack to cater for users who don't know how to use revdep-rebuild > (there seems to be a lot of that going around, making elog worthless, > but that's a different issue...), and should probably just be removed. >=20 > * pcmcia.eclass. Supposedly deprecated. Bug 140289. Are there open bugs for it? Or is anyone aware of and working on it? =20 > * Modify built_with_use so that it calls native_built_with_use if such > a function exists, and falls back to its own implementation otherwise. >=20 > * Allow package managers that implement native_built_with_use to > sandbox off vdb completely, and ban all ebuild access to vdb. Sounds reasonable as far as I can see.=20 =20 > This will let package managers use a format other than VDB. A well > designed replacement can shave a minute off cold cache command times. How much gain can be expected? And what package managers will allow native_built_with_use? V-Li --=20 Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project , #gentoo-lisp on FreeNode --Sig_/NAlUtOCWDGioOx6VrLqEs5u Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHqBPCNQqtfCuFneMRAir6AJ9xWJgrgrvTXblrraWAejmaK9lH6ACdE/nk aHFW00PATKIdlcyve3656E4= =R0jx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/NAlUtOCWDGioOx6VrLqEs5u-- -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list