Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

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: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:28:25
Message-Id: 20090225152811.34ab216a@snowcone
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Issues regarding glep-55 (Was: [gentoo-council] Re: Preliminary Meeting-Topics for 12 February 2009) by "Tiziano Müller"
1 On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 07:34:41 +0100
2 Tiziano Müller <dev-zero@g.o> wrote:
3 > Well, you could theoretical consider everything in the cache valid
4 > within the current scope, find the eapi within the cache or the ebuild
5 > and then reconsider things.
6
7 You can't even do that, because new EAPIs might change how cache
8 entries are validated. An ID might have been moved to a new EAPI using
9 some new EAPI thing (such as changing how inherit works) that doesn't
10 end up altering mtimes in a way that can be caught.
11
12 > Would it be possible to change the cache-format with with G55?
13 > Meaning: Have the current cache-format for the current *.ebuild and
14 > another for *.ebuild-N (where I mean by cache-format the contents of
15 > the cache-files)?
16
17 If you have GLEP 55 you don't need it.
18
19 --
20 Ciaran McCreesh

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