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From: Carsten Lohrke <carlo@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] summary: proposed solutions to arches/stable problem
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 15:04:41
Message-Id: 200406231703.56299.carlo@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] summary: proposed solutions to arches/stable problem by Marius Mauch
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4 On Wednesday 23 June 2004 02:15, Marius Mauch wrote:
5 > The problem is much deeper, currently the syntax for KEYWORDS is quite
6 > strict, any enhancements require portage changes on user systems.
7 O.k., I'm on thin ice here, because I don't know enough about portage. Why not
8 stripping either "status" or "+" from the keyword list for all operations
9 where it is not needed? Couldn't it be transiently stored in an extra field,
10 until everything is in place to migrate users without any hassle?
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12 > > Just had another thought about the "re-arranging arch" option. How do
13 > > you implement this in a differend backend, e.g. a database, Aron?
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15 > What do you mean here, a backend for the tree, the cache or what?
16 A possible future - no file tree, but everything stored in a db. When each
17 keyword is a column in a table, you cannot reorder them as in an ebuild
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