Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [RFC] Guessing a package by short name
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 22:47:47
Message-Id: 45F9CCE4.1070300@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [RFC] Guessing a package by short name by Alec Warner
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4 Alec Warner wrote:
5 > My only concern is about consistency. IE the portage backend (if I
6 > recall correctly) should return all matching nodes; emerge would then
7 > take that list and find the first one that matches in the vdb. However
8 > it becomes a bit difficult sometimes because emerge may do this vdb
9 > preference but say, portageq, may not.
10
11 emerge is supposed to be a high-level front-end though. If
12 necessary, there's no reason why we can't add a portageq function
13 that replicates emerge's "smart" category expansion.
14
15 Zac
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