Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 55

[Arun Raghavan]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Ciaran McCreesh
<ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:31:45 +0200
> Thomas de Grenier de Latour <tom.gl@××××.fr> wrote:
>> On 2008/06/11, Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> 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.

Fix that, then. And I understand that the code is already there in
both portage and pkgcore to store the cache as key-value pairs rather
than one-slot-per-key, and would be relatively trivial to add to
paludis.

Regards,
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