[oe] USE flags mumbling

[Tom Rini]

Martin Jansa wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 03:22:54PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
>> I wonder, and I have to admit to having no real gentoo background
>> here, how do they solve this problem?  Did they invent their own
>> package format and add another field that consists of use flags?
>> That'd make some stuff a lot easier, but making deb/rpm get that
>> mapping somehow seems hard at first.
> 
> They store all information about built packages in
> /var/db/pkg/category/name/*

OK.  I thought they had finally added binary packages as an option a 
while back but I see that's really just a few really big things now.

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Tom Rini
Mentor Graphics Corporation