Bug 763888

Summary:	Misconception of the locally installed packages
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Igor Franchuk <lanthruster>
Component:	Conceptual/Abstract Ideas	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Igor Franchuk 2021-01-05 14:11:42 UTC

Conceptually all the installed packages form a repo of installed packages. But no repo of installed packages is supported. There is installed packages db but it's not the same as the repo of installed ebuilds. 

The suggestion is to extend installed packages db in a way it would keep all the patches and distfiles (distfiles - optional) of the installed ebuilds and emerge would consider that db as a repo name it "installed". That would give an opportunity to re-configure gentoo to your liking even if the portage tree has no longer support of the currently installed applications and the ebuilds and patches and distfiles are removed.

IMHO the current emerge is walking around that concept

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2021-01-05 18:08:00 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 703058 ***