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From: Bernd Steinhauser <gentoo@×××××××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: A few questions to our nominees
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:58:31
Message-Id: 4853DC85.2000805@bernd-steinhauser.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: A few questions to our nominees by Patrick Lauer
1 Patrick Lauer schrieb:
2 > On Saturday 14 June 2008 14:11:12 Bernd Steinhauser wrote:
3 >>> That's what metadata is there for. And ebuilds don't mind carrying a bit
4 >>> more ... after all it's just one line of text.
5 >> So, what you want to do is to read every ebuild, if you want to find all
6 >> live ebuilds?
7 >
8 > Metadata cache. It's there for a reason.
9 >
10 >
11 Besides, what will you do to determine if an installed ebuild is a live one?
12 Go through the metadata cache for the non-installed stuff?
13 Go through these ebuilds?
14
15 Sounds like fun...
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