Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 14:29:25 +0100 >> The majority of devs don't want to know how portage or paludis work >> internally, that's not what interests most of us. > > Which is fine. But then, the majority of devs shouldn't expect to be > able to provide opinions when it comes to the more technical aspects. > Yes, but they can smell a nasty hack when they see one; starting with the fact that the API is no longer as clean.
>> On a somewhat related note : I noticed that among the massive thread, >> you have brought up several times the issue of cache generation, >> saying that it was a complicated process. >> >> Maybe this process needs to be reworked before the whole EAPI issue >> can be resolved? > > That's partly what the GLEP is doing. Making it any simpler, > unfortunately, would involve either a huuuuuuge performance hit (we're > talking two orders of magnitude here) or removing metadata from the > ebuilds entirely -- neither of which are viable solutions. > Oh, I thought this wasn't about performance? Nor indeed about cache generation. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
