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From: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o>
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 22:48:31
Message-Id: 49A4793B.8030200@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Issues regarding glep-55 (Was: [gentoo-council] Re: Preliminary Meeting-Topics for 12 February 2009) by Ciaran McCreesh
1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > Not true. You don't know whether the cache is valid until you know what
3 > the EAPI is.
4
5 If you are on the user scenario the cache is valid.
6 If the eapi changes the cache meaning you can always put the new cache
7 in another place older portage won't look into.
8
9 >> You:
10 >> - have to open them on regen, no matter what (you are adding it to
11 >> portage)
12 >> - the cache entry has already the eapi value so there it is.
13 >
14 > Can't use the cache until you know what the EAPI is.
15
16 The current cache holds all the current portage needs to know what to
17 ignore, providing the cache in such format will make portage ignore any
18 future change.
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20 lu
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24 Luca Barbato
25 Gentoo Council Member
26 Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC
27 http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero

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