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From: "Arun Raghavan" <arunisgod@...>
Subject: Re: Re: GLEP 55
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:52:17 +0530
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 8:44 AM, Ciaran McCreesh
<ciaran.mccreesh@...> wrote:
[...]
>> 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.

Does the cache format _really_ need to be extensible the extent that
we're jumping hoops to support arbitrary cache formats?
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