* [gentoo-dev] PMS (was: don't rely on dynamic deps)
@ 2014-08-01 21:38 99% ` Martin Vaeth
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From: Martin Vaeth @ 2014-08-01 21:38 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>>>>> On Sat, 26 Jul 2014, Martin Vaeth wrote:
>
>> Quite the opposite, PMS claims that one cannot rely on
>> anything stored in /var/db
>
> Where does it say so?
"Appendix B: Unspecified Items
The following items are not specified by this document,
and must not be relied upon by ebuilds.
[...]
The VDB (/var/db/pkg)
[...]"
This is bugging me for quite a while already, because I
had to try and to rely on undocumented behaviour for all
features of eix which access /var/db/pkg.
It also is one of the reasons why it might be dangerous
if you use another PM even only for testing purposes:
In theory, it might even be possible that a package installed
by one PM is not recognized by the other.
I guess that this is not a big problem in practice, but
in fine points like the discussed prerm perhaps some
problems might arise through mixing.
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2014-07-21 19:53 ` Andreas K. Huettel
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2014-07-21 21:06 ` Pacho Ramos
2014-07-22 13:53 ` Ian Stakenvicius
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