On Tuesday 24 April 2012 12:45:22 Paul Varner wrote: > On 04/24/12 11:21, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 04:11:44PM +0200, Theo Chatzimichos wrote: > >> log from #gentoo-portage: <tampakrap> zmedico: (random idea) would > >> it make sence to generate local.use.desc in /var/cache, or > >> somewhere in /var, but out of the tree? > > > > 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. > > Additionally, if we move the file, euse will need to be updated as well > and get pushed out to a stable version of gentoolikit. > > The euse rewrite is on the roadmap for gentoolkit-0.3.1 which doesn't > have a release date yet since the primary contributors have been busy > with other things.
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. -mike
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