Why you can’t rely on repository format (PMS)

You should know already that you are not supposed to rely on Portage internals in ebuilds — all variables, functions and helpers that are not defined by the PMS. You probably know that you are not supposed to touch various configuration files, vdb and other Portage files as well. What most people don’t seem to understand, you are not supposed to make any assumptions about the ebuild repository either. In this post, I will expand on this and try to explain why.

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