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Hi, |
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Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@×××××××××××××.uk>: |
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> The following things access VDB by hand: |
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> * gnome2-utils.eclass. Will be fixed once a portage with proper |
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> env saving goes stable, which isn't too far off. Bug 155993. |
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> * net-misc/l7-filter. This can be fixed as soon as portage with proper |
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> env saving goes stable. |
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> * kde.eclass, for slot_rebuild. This seems like it's a really dumb |
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> hack to cater for users who don't know how to use revdep-rebuild |
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> (there seems to be a lot of that going around, making elog worthless, |
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> but that's a different issue...), and should probably just be removed. |
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> * pcmcia.eclass. Supposedly deprecated. Bug 140289. |
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Are there open bugs for it? Or is anyone aware of and working on it? |
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> * Modify built_with_use so that it calls native_built_with_use if such |
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> a function exists, and falls back to its own implementation otherwise. |
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> * Allow package managers that implement native_built_with_use to |
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> sandbox off vdb completely, and ban all ebuild access to vdb. |
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Sounds reasonable as far as I can see. |
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> This will let package managers use a format other than VDB. A well |
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> designed replacement can shave a minute off cold cache command times. |
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How much gain can be expected? And what package managers will allow |
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native_built_with_use? |
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V-Li |
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Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project |
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<URL:http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-lisp on FreeNode |
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<URL:http://www.faulhammer.org/> |
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