On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 16:15:37 +0700
"C. Bergström" <cbergstrom@pathscale.com> wrote:

> Long term the API to pkgcore could be beneficial, but 
> again I'm not sure it's a game changer for users.

Long term, we should have an independent API backend that tools can
query; not rewrite our tools every time users want to use them with a
different package manager. 

Yes, a side effect of not having that is that a lot of tools would need
to be rewritten too if we would make a sudden move to pkgcore; or at
least, it would mean that Portage would still need to be around to serve
as an API, but that would also mean it still needs to be maintained.

-- 
With kind regards,

Tom Wijsman (TomWij)
Gentoo Developer

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