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On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 07:09:30AM +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 03:41:02 +0200 |
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> Petteri Räty <betelgeuse@g.o> wrote: |
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> > Piotr Jaroszyński kirjoitti: |
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> > > This GLEP proposes usage of EAPI-suffixed file extensions for |
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> > > ebuilds (for example, foo-1.2.3.ebuild-1). |
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> > |
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> > It seems many people don't like the idea of having it in the filename |
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> > but how about having subdirectories for different eapis. This should |
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> > even be faster for the package manager as it can just ignore the |
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> > directories it can't understand instead of having to parse the file |
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> > names. |
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> > |
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> > example: |
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> > |
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> > ${PORTDIR}/<category>/<pkg>/eapiX/ |
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> In terms of what it does and doesn't allow, this one's equivalent. But |
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> it has some new disadvantages: |
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> * It's several more directory reads. This is a measurable performance |
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> hit on something that's already i/o bound. |
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Among other things, because readdirs cannot be neither readahead nor |
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'advised'. Which is STUPIDLY slow. So adding yet another directory to |
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the hierarchy is quite silly. |
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- ferdy |
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Fernando J. Pereda Garcimartín |
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