Thanks for all the comments about the different SCM systems. I'm a bit confused about all the portage tree stuff. Since a couple of us were discussing a QA db on this list, I've been working on a script to pull the info from the /usr/portage/ hierarchy. There's just under 25,000 ebuilds, which are maintained by about 100 devs (not sure of exact number, taken from a forum post.) I guess what I'm asking is why this isn't just a database. You have a live tree, what's wrong with a live db?
Please note, I'm not talking about applications like portage or pkgcore, just the ebuild text files, which I understand have one maintainer? -- [email protected] mailing list
