Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> 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 says that ebuilds must not access the VDB. It says nothing about > the package manager doing so.
Nobody claimed the contrary. PM != PMS. The behaviour of PM concerning /var/db is "just" undocumented (as concerns PMS).
