There are several cases where the information from which repository (portdir, overlays, ...) a package originally came from when it was installed. Currently that information isn't really available, at most you can use some heuristics on environment.bz2 or comparing ebuilds directly, but those methods aren't very reliable (may return both false positives and false negatives). So storing the origin repo seems like a good idea, qustion is how:
1) Save (part of) the value of $EBUILD 2) Save the repository name 3) ??? Option 1) has the benefit that it would be useful from the start, but the drawback that if the path of a repository changes the information becomes invalid. Option 2) avoids that but would require that all repositories are named to be useful. Don't know if there is another option that avoids both problems. If I'd had to choose I'd probably go for option 2) and encourage people to name their repositories, but I'm open for suggestions to use option 1) or for a third option. Marius -- Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better.
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