* Re: [gentoo-dev] Keywordreqs and slacking arch teams
@ 2019-12-28 11:27 99% ` Kent Fredric
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From: Kent Fredric @ 2019-12-28 11:27 UTC (permalink / raw
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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.
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