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From: Nick Jones <carpaski@××××××.net>
To: Leon Brocard <acme@××××××.com>
Cc: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Perl interface to portage
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2003 17:28:19
Message-Id: 20030302111514.A19123@twobit.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Perl interface to portage by Leon Brocard
1 >> are there any perl bindings for portage available?
2
3 > What do you want to do? Figure out dependencies? Parsing the output of
4 > qpkg is fairly easy, or do you want to parse /usr/portage/metadata and
5 > figure out dependencies?
6
7 metadata is not guarenteed to be proper, and you shouldn't use it
8 directly. /var/cache/edb/dep/ is, although it may not be generated.
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