Re: [gentoo-dev] summary: proposed solutions to arches/stable problem

[Aron Griffis]

Carsten Lohrke wrote:	[Wed Jun 23 2004, 11:03:56AM EDT]
> > > Just had another thought about the "re-arranging arch" option. How do
> > > you implement this in a differend backend, e.g. a database, Aron?
> >
> > What do you mean here, a backend for the tree, the cache or what?
>
> A possible future - no file tree, but everything stored in a db. When each
> keyword is a column in a table, you cannot reorder them as in an ebuild

If this were to ever happen, there would be huge changes necessary in
order to import nearly every ebuild into the database.  So I don't
think the question needs to play into this discussion.

Regards,
Aron

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Aron Griffis
Gentoo Linux Developer