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* [gentoo-dev] Re: PMS
  @ 2014-08-02  9:30 99%                       ` Martin Vaeth
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From: Martin Vaeth @ 2014-08-02  9:30 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-dev

Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> 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 says that ebuilds must not access the VDB. It says nothing about
> the package manager doing so.

Nobody claimed the contrary. PM != PMS. The behaviour of PM
concerning /var/db is "just" undocumented (as concerns PMS).



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2014-07-21 19:37     [gentoo-dev] don't rely on dynamic deps hasufell
2014-07-21 19:53     ` Andreas K. Huettel
2014-07-21 19:55       ` Ciaran McCreesh
2014-07-21 21:06         ` Pacho Ramos
2014-07-22 13:53           ` Ian Stakenvicius
2014-07-22 22:44             ` Tom Wijsman
2014-07-25 14:44               ` Ian Stakenvicius
2014-07-25 15:09                 ` hasufell
2014-07-26 12:41                   ` [gentoo-dev] " Martin Vaeth
2014-07-26 12:56                     ` Ulrich Mueller
2014-08-01 21:38                       ` [gentoo-dev] PMS (was: don't rely on dynamic deps) Martin Vaeth
2014-08-02  5:19                         ` [gentoo-dev] PMS Ulrich Mueller
2014-08-02  9:30 99%                       ` [gentoo-dev] PMS Martin Vaeth

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