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From: Vlastimil Babka <caster@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 55
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:44:41
Message-Id: 48510C25.9070905@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 55 by "Fernando J. Pereda"
1 Fernando J. Pereda wrote:
2 >
3 > On 10 Jun 2008, at 15:33, Joe Peterson wrote:
4 >
5 >> Luca Barbato wrote:
6 >>> Check if exists a line EAPI=*$, if does and the rest of the string
7 >>> matches an understood eapi, go on sourcing, otherwise ignore/mask it...
8 >>
9 >> And placing it out-of-band (like "# EAPI=...") avoids any sourcing
10 >> errors, makes parsing faster, etc.
11 >
12 > No, it doesn't make parsing faster. Had you bothered to profile any
13 > package manager you'd know that.
14
15 How much is parsing speed relevant when users in majority of cases
16 already have the metadata cache from the rsync servers?
17 For devs (or users) hacking on an ebuild they have to source it anyway
18 so the addition pre-parsing is negligible...
19
20 VB
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