Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal to move use.local.desc somewhere in /var

[Rich Freeman]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote:
> it's also a bit of a speed issue.  i often want to look at what flags get used
> across the tree.  what's faster: loading + parsing 15000 xml files, or loading
> 1 file ? shifting it to metadata/ as a cache of all the xml files is probably
> fine, but i'm not sure dropping it completely is an improvement.

++

Any time I add a new use flag/etc the first thing I do is look for how
other packages accomplish the same thing.  No sense writing scripts
when we already have one that does the job.

Rich