Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>>>>> On Sat, 26 Jul 2014, Martin Vaeth wrote: > >> Quite the opposite, PMS claims that one cannot rely on >> anything stored in /var/db > > Where does it say so?
"Appendix B: Unspecified Items The following items are not specified by this document, and must not be relied upon by ebuilds. [...] The VDB (/var/db/pkg) [...]" This is bugging me for quite a while already, because I had to try and to rely on undocumented behaviour for all features of eix which access /var/db/pkg. It also is one of the reasons why it might be dangerous if you use another PM even only for testing purposes: In theory, it might even be possible that a package installed by one PM is not recognized by the other. I guess that this is not a big problem in practice, but in fine points like the discussed prerm perhaps some problems might arise through mixing.
