On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 01:36:01 +0200
Thomas de Grenier de Latour <tom.gl@...> wrote:
> Or you apply to future EAPI's cache formats one of the solutions that
> have been proposed for the ebuild side of the very same "chicken / egg
> problem": for instance, you could use $EAPI as cache filename
> extension. 
> 
> And that's it, you can get EAPI from the cache, hence no more extra
> reading of ebuild files, and no more perfs issues.
> 
> It sounds so simple, am I missing something obvious?

You're missing the cases where the cache isn't usable.

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Ciaran McCreesh