On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 18:21:58 +0000 Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 19:16:45 +0100 > Tom Wijsman <tom...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 08:49:17 -0800 > > Alec Warner <anta...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > The caching may not be of use, depending on your configuration. > > > (For example, if you use a gentoo-x86 checkout as your main repo, > > > you will probably want to run generate cache entries whenever you > > > cvs up.) It is there to cache ebuild metadata, because if your > > > depgraph has a few thousand nodes, having to spawn bash to > > > generate the metadata for every node is very expensive. > > > > It sounds crazy to use gentoo-x86 without a cache; to some extent, > > the earlier mentions on this ML by Ciaran that we should improve > > input would make more sense if would want to run without a cache. > > But I feel like this shouldn't be a topic of discussion unless we > > intent 'works fast on a plain CV checkout' to be an actual feature. > > I think you're misunderstanding that comment. It's not just the file > formats that are bad. It's also what data is provided. Two examples > are the massive lengths we have to go to to figure out what to do > with || dependencies (thanks to the horrific abuses commonly used in > the tree...), and the well-documented REQUIRED_USE screwup. Iotw, 'input'; but thank you for clarifying. -- With kind regards, Tom Wijsman (TomWij) Gentoo Developer E-mail address : tom...@gentoo.org GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2 ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D
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