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From: Mark Bainter <mark-gt@×××××.org>
To: Julien Herfurth <jherfurth@××××××.com>
Cc: "gentoo-dev@g.o" <gentoo-dev@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] maybe it is time to put portage queries into a database.
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 02:11:14
Message-Id: 20030627020347.GA11439@niaul.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] maybe it is time to put portage queries into a database. by Julien Herfurth
1 Julien Herfurth [jherfurth@××××××.com] wrote:
2 > On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 00:16, jesse wrote:
3 > > I would say options, tools and the ability to do this sorta stuff should
4 > > be optional. I don't wan't to have to run mysql on my laptop however
5 > > having portage db in a dbfile would be handy. On the other hand i run 8
6 > > machines in my house on Gentoo, and having each machines info and db's
7 > > in my mysql server here would be a great boon ( already using local
8 > > syncing and nfs mounted dist dirs)
9 > >
10 > > using DBI this could make it pretty easy to support
11 > > mysql/postrgesql/dbfiles. Isn't there already a project out there doin
12 > > somthing with mysql ?
13 >
14 > see also sqlite
15
16 See also firebird. It's small, and thus likely to raise less objections
17 from people like me as an installation dependency. It can also be used
18 locally or over the network. And it supports sql syntax.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] maybe it is time to put portage queries into a database. Eric Sammer <eric@××××××××××××.com>