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Theres a new version at last! A total rewrite. Now we have a package managing shared object file and a sample interface. Hopefully some kind people will write some interfaces one day!

The developers at portage-sql have been writing the dependency checking code to try and get it right, and it is now starting to show promise. We can now print the dependencies of a package in a -p, and have to take into account the use flags, and other smaller jobs need doing then we will release. Next on the task list will be to import the installed packages, to allow people to test portage-sql effectively! :-)

The Dependency algorithms have taken alot longer than expected to get working, but we now have the database filling correctly - and are in the process of writing the emerge code that does dependency checking. Check back soon for the new release!

The first release of portage sql was made a few days ago and a new one is already just around the corner. The developers of portage-sql are working on getting dependency support into the program as soon as possible. The current CVS version allows the program to search correctly for each ACCEPT_KEYWORDS and also has some early stages of dependencies. The database has grown massively to 60 meg now, and the creation time has rocketed to around 10 seconds. Once the dependency checking is complete, we will start on optimising the code.