[gentoo-portage-dev] Re: [RFC] Package description index file format for faster emerge search actions

[Duncan]

Zac Medico posted on Tue, 14 Oct 2014 03:05:35 -0700 as excerpted:

> On 10/14/2014 02:53 AM, Duncan wrote:
>> Zac Medico posted on Tue, 14 Oct 2014 00:40:21 -0700 as excerpted:
>>
>>>  I suggest that we add support for a
>>> package description index file format.
>>
>> What about homepage?  An index for it too?
>
> The intent is to use the package name/version as a "foreign key" that
> links an entry in the description index to an entry in one of portage's
> other caches.

Thanks.  Makes sense now. =:^)

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