On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 12:01 +0100, Fabian Zeindl wrote: > Hello > > I know this has been discussed before: Portage uses flat files for his > database for reasons of portability. But isn't it possible to design > portage to use backends on each system, so that the user can choose > whether to use BerkeleyDB,flatfiles,SQl or so?
Yes. There has been a "SQLPortage" project. You might want to google for it. Also, afaik the "next" major release of portage should have working modular backends so that you could just drop in what you want/need (at least in theory ;-) ) hth, Patrick
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