On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 11:54 +0200, Philipp Riegger wrote: > The current situation: > > Binary packages are (usually) stored > in /usr/portage/packages/$category/$package-$version.tbz2. The package > consists of the "real binary package" and the metadata (combined using > xpak or whatever).
No, the metadata is stored in a separate Packages file. Regards, Kobboi