On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:46:17 +0100
Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o> wrote:
> > It means opening a file that would otherwise not be opened at all.
> > And if the EAPI is in the file, you have to fish inside that file
> > to pull it out before you can work out whether the cache entry that
> > might contain the EAPI already is valid.
> 
> Keeping in mind that:
> - if the cache is present you won't do it (so normal users aren't
> touched)
> - you just need a way to upgrade portage and nothing else.

Not true. You don't know whether the cache is valid until you know what
the EAPI is.

> You:
> - have to open them on regen, no matter what (you are adding it to
> portage)
> - the cache entry has already the eapi value so there it is.

Can't use the cache until you know what the EAPI is.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh