On Sat, Dec 28, 2019 at 3:43 AM Kent Fredric <kentnl@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Sat, 28 Dec 2019 11:35:49 +0000
> Michael 'veremitz' Everitt <gentoo@veremit.xyz> wrote:
>
> > Note:  we're nnot acttually talking about replacing portage here, just
> > creating a tool ((((thiink php script web tthingy)) that will do some of
> > the pre-screeninng worrrrk that AT hate (eg.... what kensiington did
> with
> > stable-bbot)
> >
> > * with apologies for keyboard/remote-access lagggg creating typo hell.
>
> But, doing that requires viewing realised copies of ebuilds, which
> requires interpreting eclasses and variable interpolation, which
> requires bash sourcing, which requires a mountain of portage hell.
>

> Yes, sharing the stable-bot logic would probably be fine.
>
> But it doesn't use a database AFAIK, it would likely just be making use
> of the MD5Cache (either directly, or indirectly via portage APIs)
>
> But I won't be volunteering, because I won't touch python.
>

You could of course work together with someone else to write the tool?

-A