The following things access VDB by hand: * gnome2-utils.eclass. Will be fixed once a portage with proper env saving goes stable, which isn't too far off. Bug 155993.
* net-misc/l7-filter. This can be fixed as soon as portage with proper env saving goes stable. * kde.eclass, for slot_rebuild. This seems like it's a really dumb hack to cater for users who don't know how to use revdep-rebuild (there seems to be a lot of that going around, making elog worthless, but that's a different issue...), and should probably just be removed. * pcmcia.eclass. Supposedly deprecated. Bug 140289. * eutils.eclass. For built_with_use. Of these, only the last appears to be of any use. So how about the following? * Modify built_with_use so that it calls native_built_with_use if such a function exists, and falls back to its own implementation otherwise. * Allow package managers that implement native_built_with_use to sandbox off vdb completely, and ban all ebuild access to vdb. This will let package managers use a format other than VDB. A well designed replacement can shave a minute off cold cache command times. -- Ciaran McCreesh -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
