On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:31:45 +0200
Thomas de Grenier de Latour <tom.gl@...> wrote:
> On 2008/06/11, Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@...> wrote:
> > You're missing the cases where the cache isn't usable.
> 
> I was not talking about generating cache entries, and neither were
> you. I've replied to you because you were suggesting that the "EAPI in
> ebuilds contents" solution had extra cost when _using_ valid cache
> entries (need to extract the EAPI from the ebuild before reading this
> cache entry), which i think can be easily avoided.

And it does, since EAPI has to be known to use the cache contents. The
way it's handled currently is a hack that doesn't work with future EAPIs
defining new metadata.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh