On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 09:18:06PM -0800 or thereabouts, Susie wrote:
Why is there 2 of pretty much every ebuild? I ask as I noticed awhile
back there seems to be ebuilds in both /var/db/pkg/ and /usr/portage/
Isn't that redundant? Don't we need just one copy of an ebuild per
package? I'm just curious why...
/var/db/pkg contains copies of installed ebuilds which may or may not also
exist in /usr/portage (see below)
Anyways other than that why even with my frequent rsyncs do I have some
fairly old ebuilds in there? I can see the testing/new being masked
being in the tree and the current stables being in the tree but why are
some fairly old versions in the tree?
Because you don't always want to upgrade your machine all that often. Take
a firewall for example -- it filters packets. Nothing more. Short of
security fixes, if it's working just fine, why upgrade it?
So, by having older versions of ebuilds available in the tree, we are able
to provide choice to more of our users.
--kurt
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