Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 55

[Rémi Cardona]

Olivier Galibert a écrit :
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 12:01:00PM +0200, Rémi Cardona wrote:
>> Ciaran McCreesh a écrit :
>>> Kills the upgrade path completely. No good.
>> Lemme sum this up in layman's terms :
>>
>> 1) EAPI _has_ to be known before sourcing an ebuild. There's no way to
>> avoid that for various reasons, all 100% valid.
>
> "sourcing" != "reading the first line/n first lines/first block and grepping".

IO-wise, it's the same, as most ebuilds fit inside a kernel memory page 
(ie, 4KB on most arches). So with a cold cache, the time required to 
actually run bash to source the ebuild won't matter much.

But we're getting lost on this thread, let's let it cool off for a 
little while :)

Cheers,

Rémi
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