From: Michael Kohl <citizen428@...>
Date: 2003-03-19T15:13:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Gentoo Administration

On 18 Mar 2003 02:07:54 -0800
google@tompayne.org (Tom Payne) wrote:


> I don't think this is a good idea. Maintaining parallel Ruby and
> Python versions of portage would be a nightmare: portage changes
> regularly and keeping both versions in sync would be problematic.

I never meant to replace the current Portage by a Ruby one.

> One of the many great things about Gentoo is that both the portage
> tree and the package database are stored in plain text (unlike, for
> example, RPM). This makes querying it really easy even from the
> command line (e.g. you can list installed packages by typing "ls
> /var/db/pkg/*/*/*.ebuild | cut -d/ -f5-6"). This makes writing a Ruby
> query tool really easy too.

That is what I meant by "Ruby-Portage-Interface". I guess I was a little
unclear in my first post, sorry!

Michael

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