Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for May 28

[Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>]

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On Thu, 28 May 2009 18:56:00 +0100
Roy Bamford <neddyseagoon@gentoo.org> wrote:
> As I understand this, it may add six seconds to an emerge world while 
> the dep tree is calculated. Lets say it takes an hour to do emerge 
> world, the time has increased from 3600 seconds to 3606 seconds or a 
> trivial 0.1666667%

Interactive time is important. If it were adding those extra seconds to
the build, no-one would care. But it's not. It's adding them to when
the user's sitting at the screen waiting for results.

> You mean 0.3% (or less) of the emerge world time?

No, he means 50% of pretend time when you're sitting there waiting to
see what's going to happen.

> I am against *all* and any metadata in the filename. Today, GLEP 55 
> proposes the add the EAIP, tomorrow, there will be something else,
> the day after another thing ... and all because allowing EAPI set the 
> precedent.

No there won't be. There is no slippery slope. Also, PV and PN are
already in the filename.

> You also make the error of assuming that with eapi-in-ebuild the 
> currently suggested approaches to extracting the EAPI from the ebuild 
> are the best and remain unchanged. Thats unlikely, as not a lot of
> work has been done it yet.

It is the best. If we're requiring EAPI before trying to parse PV, all
the EAPIs have to be known to do any ordering.

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Ciaran McCreesh
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