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On Tuesday 24 April 2012 12:45:22 Paul Varner wrote: |
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> On 04/24/12 11:21, Robin H. Johnson wrote: |
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> > On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 04:11:44PM +0200, Theo Chatzimichos wrote: |
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> >> log from #gentoo-portage: <tampakrap> zmedico: (random idea) would |
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> >> it make sence to generate local.use.desc in /var/cache, or |
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> >> somewhere in /var, but out of the tree? |
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> > |
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> > Why are we keeping it? I move that we remove it. It's been replaced |
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> > by USE flags in metadata.xml for several years now. |
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> euse from gentoolkit still uses it since it is written in bash and XML |
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> parsing in bash can be problematic. We really need to get euse |
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> rewritten in python so it can use the portage and gentoolkit API's |
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> before we get rid of the file. |
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> Additionally, if we move the file, euse will need to be updated as well |
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> and get pushed out to a stable version of gentoolikit. |
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> The euse rewrite is on the roadmap for gentoolkit-0.3.1 which doesn't |
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> have a release date yet since the primary contributors have been busy |
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> with other things. |
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it's also a bit of a speed issue. i often want to look at what flags get used |
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across the tree. what's faster: loading + parsing 15000 xml files, or loading |
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1 file ? shifting it to metadata/ as a cache of all the xml files is probably |
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fine, but i'm not sure dropping it completely is an improvement. |
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-mike |
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