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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 22:59:00
Message-Id: 20090224225850.179814b6@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 23:48:27 +0100
2 Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o> wrote:
3 > Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
4 > > Not true. You don't know whether the cache is valid until you know
5 > > what the EAPI is.
6 >
7 > If you are on the user scenario the cache is valid.
8
9 Uh. Wrong.
10
11 > > Can't use the cache until you know what the EAPI is.
12 >
13 > The current cache holds all the current portage needs to know what to
14 > ignore, providing the cache in such format will make portage ignore
15 > any future change.
16
17 Uh. Wrong.
18
19 The information used to validate a cache entry is only usable if you
20 know the behaviour of 'inherit' that was used to create the entry.
21
22 --
23 Ciaran McCreesh

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