On 28/12/19 11:32, Kent Fredric wrote: > On Sat, 28 Dec 2019 11:14:15 +0000 > Michael 'veremitz' Everitt <gen...@veremit.xyz> wrote: > >> I know I'm gonna be shot down in flames, because $heresy, but here is where >> a package 'database' would actually work quite well, because you can >> trivially create a query that pulls this data out, and sorts it by package >> category or maintainer or whatever you like . > Oh, and once upon a time, there was actually a trick you could do to > make portage keep its metadata caches in an SQLite database, which had > its benefits, and I even had a rough tool I wrote in ruby and shared on > the old (defunct) wiki that helped do quick database queries. > > But the trick actually makes portage slower in multiple ways, and it > never really got widespread love. > > ( Though I would argue how the data was stored was also inadequate for > a lot of other tasks one might want to do with a database, like, > keeping DEPEND stored in its string format ) 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.
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