Re: The build system (and install layout) of Portage

On Thu, 2022-03-17 at 20:57 +0000, James Le Cuirot wrote:
> On Thu, 2022-03-17 at 18:22 +0100, Michał Górny wrote:
> > An alternative is to go back to using (at least partially) Makefiles or
> > Meson.  However, that would have the important drawback that we'd lose
> > the ability to install Portage as a regular Python package (e.g. inside
> > a virtualenv).
> 
> What is the use case for doing that? I thought maybe testing, but then you can
> run Portage and its unit tests in-place without installing it at all right
> now.

Using Portage as a library for package inspection, etc. -- i.e. mostly
CI purposes.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny