On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:48:27 +0100
Luca Barbato <lu_zero@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > Not true. You don't know whether the cache is valid until you know
> > what the EAPI is.
> 
> If you are on the user scenario the cache is valid.

Uh. Wrong.

> > Can't use the cache until you know what the EAPI is.
> 
> The current cache holds all the current portage needs to know what to 
> ignore, providing the cache in such format will make portage ignore
> any future change.

Uh. Wrong.

The information used to validate a cache entry is only usable if you
know the behaviour of 'inherit' that was used to create the entry.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh