On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 04:14:58AM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> 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.

The metadata should carry its version indicator too.

  OG.
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