On Jun 23, 2011, at 15:26, Joshua Root wrote: > On 2011-6-24 06:01 , Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> >> Yup, the guide has not been updated for this change, which came about with >> Registry 2.0, which is the first that can record negative variants. Today, >> users who install MacPorts 1.9.x from scratch get Regstiry 2.0 whereas users >> who upgraded from MacPorts 1.8.x or earlier stay with Registry 1.0 (until >> they modify their macports.conf) (I think? Isn't that right?). With MacPorts >> 2.0 the old registry goes away at which point all users' registries will be >> able to remember negative variants. > > That's incorrect, everyone running 1.9.0+ is using registry2.0 and has > their negated variants remembered whether they are using flat receipts > or sqlite. > > The choice of using flat does go away in the next release.
Not enough room in brain for all these things. :) So then what was it that the sqlite registry gives us over the flat registry? Aside from being a proper database, which is a good thing already. _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
