On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:14:11 +0200
Olivier Galibert <galibert@...> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 03:02:28PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > Except that currently, the ebuild file isn't opened for read. So
> > it's not in memory at all.
> 
> Why would you need the EAPI before the time when you actually want to
> interpret the contents?	

You need the EAPI before you use the metadata. But you don't need the
ebuild to get the metadata in the common case.

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Ciaran McCreesh