Interesting..... Well, I am going to install this tonight when I get home and I will see how this would really affect the real portage.. From the web site, it still uses the /usr/portage tree.
Maybe when they rewrite the real portage they will rethink it.. Does anyone out there use it? can you switch back and forth between emergesql and emerge without problems? > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew Gaffney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 11:20 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] portage in SQL > > > I emailed the developer asking him about this. Well, I asked him why > they didn't just use portage and hack the backend plugin code into > portage. He said that portage was such a hack job that it > would just be > easier to do a complete rewrite. I believe he also talked to > some of the > Gentoo portage developers to see if there was any interest in > incorporating this into portage. He said they weren't. > > Jeffrey Smelser wrote: > > I was reading the site, any ideas when this can be a option > in the real portage?? this would be a great feature to have. > > > > It doesn't say on the site if it will every get incorporated in. > > > > > >>-----Original Message----- > >>From: Andrew Gaffney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 10:30 AM > >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] portage in SQL > >> > >> > >>Marshal Newrock wrote: > >> > >>>On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>>Check out <portagesql.breakmygentoo.net> > >>> > >>> > >>>Ah, I wasn't aware of this. It's probably a bit more > >> > >>sophisticated than > >> > >>>my simple attempt. It was a good exercise anyway. :) > >> > >>They have basically rewritten portage from the ground up. It's not > >>exactly as feature rich as the real portage, but most of the > >>basic stuff > >>is there. They have a backend plugin system, so you can use > >>just about > >>any database that you want. > >> > >>-- > >>Andrew Gaffney > >> > >> > >>-- > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > > > > > -- > Andrew Gaffney > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
