On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 09:26 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Tuesday 02 October 2007, Luca Barbato wrote: > > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > in the general case, dash will typically parse faster than bash. but is > > > this speed gain relevant ? if dash can parse an ebuild in 10% of the > > > time that it takes bash, but bash can do it in a 1 second, do we care ? > > > the majority of ebuilds are going to take magnitudes larger to get the > > > job done > > > (running ./configure && make). > > > > You may want to parse an ebuild not just for building it ^^ > > true ... but i'd have to wonder if there's anything worth parsing out that > the > pregenerated metadata does not provide for you ...
pkg_* and stuff that binary package managers needs. Things that creates user accounts etc. I would actually prefer getting that stuff into metadata. It would open up new doors for binary only package managers. > i guess if you want to > parse an ebuild that isnt in the tree thus lacks metadata ... but we further > marginalize the use ... > -mike -nc -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
