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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Issues regarding glep-55 (Was: [gentoo-council] Re: Preliminary Meeting-Topics for 12 February 2009)
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:49:01
Message-Id: 20090224214850.6689d986@snowcone
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Issues regarding glep-55 (Was: [gentoo-council] Re: Preliminary Meeting-Topics for 12 February 2009) by Luca Barbato
1 On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:46:17 +0100
2 Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o> wrote:
3 > > It means opening a file that would otherwise not be opened at all.
4 > > And if the EAPI is in the file, you have to fish inside that file
5 > > to pull it out before you can work out whether the cache entry that
6 > > might contain the EAPI already is valid.
7 >
8 > Keeping in mind that:
9 > - if the cache is present you won't do it (so normal users aren't
10 > touched)
11 > - you just need a way to upgrade portage and nothing else.
12
13 Not true. You don't know whether the cache is valid until you know what
14 the EAPI is.
15
16 > You:
17 > - have to open them on regen, no matter what (you are adding it to
18 > portage)
19 > - the cache entry has already the eapi value so there it is.
20
21 Can't use the cache until you know what the EAPI is.
22
23 --
24 Ciaran McCreesh

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