[gentoo-dev] Re: metadatabase

2007-01-06 Thread Steve Long
Ryan Hill wrote: Robert Buchholz wrote: I don't want to sound negative and I like the idea a lot, but two things are on my mind about this: It should also sync with changes in the tree, like package removals, additions and package moves. For sure. When you're talking about it on

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: metadatabase

2007-01-04 Thread Robert Buchholz
Ryan Hill wrote: Steve Long wrote: Robert Buchholz wrote: Since the tree itself is the best database of the packages available, anything else would be a lot more overhead. I really don't agree, altho I could well be missing something. Surely there should be a maintenance/QA database which

[gentoo-dev] Re: metadatabase

2007-01-04 Thread Ryan Hill
Robert Buchholz wrote: I don't want to sound negative and I like the idea a lot, but two things are on my mind about this: It should also sync with changes in the tree, like package removals, additions and package moves. For sure. When you're talking about it on ebuild base: When a

[gentoo-dev] Re: metadatabase (was: Dependencies on system packages)

2007-01-03 Thread Ryan Hill
Steve Long wrote: Robert Buchholz wrote: I understand that it's hard to distinguish a pkg that hasn't been checked, but might need the C-compiler, from a pkg that doesn't need the compiler but just hasn't been checked. That's where I was going with the database stuff. Since the tree itself