On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 20:38:21 +0100 Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote: > The performance argument is in GLEP 55 itself: > > | Easily fetchable EAPI inside the ebuild > | > | Properties: > | Can be used right away: no > | Hurts performance: yes
Sure. And it's a benefit, if your package mangler is carefully designed to avoid doing unnecessary I/O. It's just not the primary point. The primary point is that it handles whatever we feel like doing in the future, even the "conveniently ignoring" stuff that you're conveniently ignoring. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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