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