On Saturday 12 Jul 2003 22:13, Dan Foster wrote:
> 1. emerge is missing one key function -- I say key, because we can't
>    consider deploying Gentoo as the OS of choice for x86 servers
> unless it has this feature: the ability to see what ebuilds were
> installed on the system and what version they are.

Look in /var/log/portage/ and /var/log/emerge.log
>
>    Package management is extremely important to us in the server
> arena because it represents the bulk of our long-term maintenance for
> both by hand and with our extensive automated tools which figures out
> what stuff to install based on what currently is installed.
> Currently, the argument is to use Debian instead of Gentoo because of
> missing bits related to package management such as this. I suck at
> coding or I'd contribute something, but I could take a shot at it.

Loads of stuff for doing that.  emerge gentoolkit and epm.
>
Peter
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