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On Wednesday 25 April 2012 02:26:19 Steven J Long wrote: |
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> Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> > Paul Varner wrote: |
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> >> Robin H. Johnson wrote: |
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> >> > Why are we keeping it? I move that we remove it. It's been replaced |
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> >> > by USE flags in metadata.xml for several years now. |
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> >> |
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> >> euse from gentoolkit still uses it since it is written in bash and XML |
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> >> parsing in bash can be problematic. We really need to get euse |
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> >> rewritten in python so it can use the portage and gentoolkit API's |
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> >> before we get rid of the file. |
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> > |
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> > it's also a bit of a speed issue. i often want to look at what flags get |
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> > used |
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> > across the tree. what's faster: loading + parsing 15000 xml files, or |
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> > loading 1 file ? shifting it to metadata/ as a cache of all the xml files |
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> > is probably fine, but i'm not sure dropping it completely is an |
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> > improvement. |
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> Agreed. I don't think it's a good idea to lose the ability to script |
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> against the tree from bash. |
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technically, you can script with xml files just fine from bash. install app- |
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text/xmlstarlet and use the `xml` tool. |
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-mike |
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