On Sat, 28 Dec 2019 11:14:15 +0000
Michael 'veremitz' Everitt <gentoo@veremit.xyz> wrote:

> I know I'm gonna be shot down in flames, because $heresy, but here is where
> a package 'database' would actually work quite well, because you can
> trivially create a query that pulls this data out, and sorts it by package
> category or maintainer or whatever you like ..
> 
> Ok, let the flamewars begin ...

There's no real problem with a package database, however, the real
limitation is in the ebuild source format, which ultimately means any
such database needs a lot of bash-sourcing hell to simply stay
up-to-date ( any time an eclass changes, the interpretation of every
ebuild that uses it also changes, necessitating some pretty fun(1) code )

And that winds you up fighting with portage internals.

So simply, in order for somebody like me to actually implement such a
thing, a precursory step is to rewrite enough portage to do just that.

But I haven't (yet) gotten around to that.


1: Not actually fun.