Ciaran McCreesh a écrit :
> The package manager does not currently source the whole thing with
> bash to get the EAPI, nor does it open the ebuild file at all for
> metadata. You're talking doubling the number of file operations here,
> and going from extremely good filesystem locality (which means very few
> seeks) to jumping backwards and forwards all over the place.

Yeah, grepping through the ebuild is just bound to get a massive 
performance hit, I don't have numbers but that just looks obvious.

Ciaran, what other pitfalls do you see for using one EAPI file per 
package (except for the broken compatibility, I know it's a big one) ?

> This is basic stuff you really need to know before you can comment
> sensibly on a discussion about package metadata.

Then, thanks for explaining those things :) We are learning stuff as we go.

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