Piotr Jaroszy?ski wrote: > On Saturday 22 of December 2007 02:41:02 Petteri Räty wrote: >> Piotr Jaroszy?ski kirjoitti: >> > This GLEP proposes usage of EAPI-suffixed file extensions for ebuilds >> > (for example, foo-1.2.3.ebuild-1). >> >> It seems many people don't like the idea of having it in the filename > > Seems you are counting the posts, not the people. > >> but how about having subdirectories for different eapis. This should >> even be faster for the package manager as it can just ignore the >> directories it can't understand instead of having to parse the file >> names. > > It was already proposed, but didn't seem to get much support. That would be counting posts, not people. It just hasn't been discussed.
> It is > equivalent to using the suffixes, but I see it rather as perfomarnce hit, > not improvement. The package manger would have to look for ebuilds in the > main dir and all the subdirs in case it doesn't have/can't use the cache. > Yeah but this isn't about performance (or so I heard. I took that to mean it was about ebuilds which can't be sourced, but you might want to check exactly what McCreesh meant, since I am apparently incapable of understanding his missives.) Given that, the subdirectories would do the job fine, and end-users don't have to worry about building the cache anyway. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
