#7 Eix support for Paludis

[Anonymous]

Would it be possible for eix to support Paludis (the Other Package Mangler), too?

There are some thirdparty hooks for paludis available, that make eix sync correctly.

But when searching with eix, it doesn't use paludis's config files, so the results don't show the available versions correctly (if a user unmasked a package), etc.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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Sorry, forgot to add the links.

Paludis homepage: http://paludis.pioto.org/
update-eix hook: http://drzile.dyndns.org/pe-doc/update-eix.php <-- see the sources at the bottom of the page

[martin.vaeth]

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I do not use paludis. Looking through the documentation of the config files, it seems to me that the format is rather different and not so easy to adapt to the way eix handles mask lists internally. This would require a lot of work (in particular, the classes in portage/mask.{h,cc} would have to be extended, and of course most functions in portage/conf/portagesettings.cc would have to be modified). I do not plan to write such extensions in the near future.

If you want to implement the necessary extensions by yourself, feel free to do so: If you want (and the extension is reasonable well written) it can probably included in eix...

[Luca Di Stefano]

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I think eix is the best search tool for gentoo, and I hope too that this great tool can support paludis!