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On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 20:38:21 +0100 |
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Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote: |
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> The performance argument is in GLEP 55 itself: |
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> | Easily fetchable EAPI inside the ebuild |
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> | Properties: |
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> | Can be used right away: no |
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> | Hurts performance: yes |
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Sure. And it's a benefit, if your package mangler is carefully |
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designed to avoid doing unnecessary I/O. It's just not the primary |
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point. The primary point is that it handles whatever we feel like doing |
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in the future, even the "conveniently ignoring" stuff that you're |
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conveniently ignoring. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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