Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Dependencies on system packages

2007-01-04 Thread Robert Buchholz
Steve Long schrieb: In terms of maintaining the metadata, am I right in thinking it's all just kept within the text files in the tree? Since the tree itself is the best database of the packages available, anything else would be a lot more overhead. I really don't agree, altho I could well be

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Dependencies on system packages

2007-01-03 Thread Steve Long
Robert Buchholz wrote: Steve Long wrote: Robert Buchholz wrote: The problem here is that one can not say when the whole tree is updated to the new standard, because for the packages which were not touched, it could mean that they needed no change or that they were not looked at yet. I can