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On Sat, 28 Dec 2019 11:14:15 +0000 |
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Michael 'veremitz' Everitt <gentoo@×××××××.xyz> wrote: |
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> I know I'm gonna be shot down in flames, because $heresy, but here is where |
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> a package 'database' would actually work quite well, because you can |
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> trivially create a query that pulls this data out, and sorts it by package |
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> category or maintainer or whatever you like . |
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Oh, and once upon a time, there was actually a trick you could do to |
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make portage keep its metadata caches in an SQLite database, which had |
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its benefits, and I even had a rough tool I wrote in ruby and shared on |
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the old (defunct) wiki that helped do quick database queries. |
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But the trick actually makes portage slower in multiple ways, and it |
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never really got widespread love. |
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( Though I would argue how the data was stored was also inadequate for |
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a lot of other tasks one might want to do with a database, like, |
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keeping DEPEND stored in its string format ) |
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