On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:52:17 +0530
"Arun Raghavan" <arunisgod@...> wrote:
> 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?

The cache format needs to be able to have keys added and removed from
it.

But the cache format is largely irrelevant here. There aren't any
non-trivial EAPI related problems introduced by cache that don't already
exist without cache.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh