Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Few things, which imho would make portage better

[tvali]

2006/3/14, Brian <dol-sen@×××××.net>:
> On Tue, 2006-14-03 at 16:33 +0200, tvali wrote:
> If I recall, (there has been lots of discussion about converting portage
> to use databases, just check the mail archives and forum) portage
> already has sqlite support, but is not yet used.  Sqlite is smaller and
> has less dependencies than mysql.

How to use sqlite support in portage?

> Also, many of the features you talked about are already implemented in
> porthole,  such as continuing after a failed package, filtering out
> warnings, important messages, etc..
>
> Check it out.

Is this ok:
!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "porthole" have been masked.
Or is there any, which is not masked?

And -- if portage is meant as main engine and porthole as it's gui,
isnt it a bit fuzzy to add speed-ups to porthole instead of portage?
If it continues like that, it may end up with someone writing
command-line tool for controlling porthole :P I think that if
application has 2 layers, one for logic and another for GUI, then it's
maybe not the best way of coding to add such kind of features to GUI
part of package. I personally would definitely try to make portage
itself support indexing and other such stuff to keep things clean. Am
i wrong? Or is it in plans to make gentoo a GUI linux with very weak
command-line support?

I think that GUI code would be *clean* if it's just a GUI!

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