# TODO list for Portage; the Gentoo Linux package system 
# $Id: TODO,v 1.9 2003/10/13 07:43:38 carpaski Exp $

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Legend:
 '*' Just do it.        '#' Tricky
 '!' Difficult          '@' Restricted in some way

# Stop using mtimes for packages. Have portage look up all files in the
# vardb to ensure that a file isn't duplicated and unmerge it if not.
# Potentially slow... Need some way to speed it up... hash of filenames?

# Virtuals. /var/cache/edb/virtuals -- Effectively remove it.
# /etc/portage/virtuals is a user-modifiable version that acts like an
# incremental applied on top of an ON-DEMAND virtual calculation system.
# Virtuals should be calculated from /var/db/pkg EVERY time it is requested.

# Repoman needs to ignore all user-set info in /etc/portage
# It's not relevant to deployed users and will probably be a general gotcha.

# Multiple rsync repos.
  bug 28796 -- Enable metadata caches for them. 

# STICKIES and related enhancements:
  bug 9379, bug 13616, Aether's config code

# Determine file lock status before starting downloads -- Prevent races/deletes
  Patches exist for this. Integrate and find all colliding descriptors/cmds.
  Create a fileIO layer? (wget and other external calls are a problem)

* Add category support to searches... emerge -s @catgory

@ rsync - track changes based in subtrees to reduce filetree expense.
  Possible plans:
    Use md5's of tree file list + md5 of subtree -- client-side burden.
    Maintain hash of changes on rsync1 -- Server-side burden. **
    Implement CVSUP. **

# 'emerge sync' timestamp awareness -- Make sure IP is associated and not
  used at random as servers may differ. bug 21794

! Rename all undocumented variables used in bash to prefixed values that
  are not easy to accidently duplicate. BUILDDIR --> PORTAGE_BUILDDIR or
  something like that. Prevent ebuilds from clobbering system variables.