On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:31:45 +0200 Thomas de Grenier de Latour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008/06/11, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You're missing the cases where the cache isn't usable. > > I was not talking about generating cache entries, and neither were > you. I've replied to you because you were suggesting that the "EAPI in > ebuilds contents" solution had extra cost when _using_ valid cache > entries (need to extract the EAPI from the ebuild before reading this > cache entry), which i think can be easily avoided.
And it does, since EAPI has to be known to use the cache contents. The way it's handled currently is a hack that doesn't work with future EAPIs defining new metadata. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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