From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SMm0t-0000YK-Js for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2012 20:07:03 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7F5FEE0841; Tue, 24 Apr 2012 20:06:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bk0-f53.google.com (mail-bk0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB628E07D8 for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2012 20:05:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-bk0-f53.google.com with SMTP id jm2so1009858bkc.40 for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:05:30 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=+9GiNkfeHf8CpP0g73CU/326pNaOzGvSdz29WMeX+3s=; b=oXA5DIPVhaU4DhslXMrKGy/8EXi1fa868+h4cdWDXZBtA8GUm2P/NdBx+kL6GDIVas kTgsOn0LQiSCuKNwC5NDqU/bMbGRU+XbseoeiDsU1WmZhwyo3Kjtvh20M/ab7nS9uqd3 rnN2O0zlGmOm3dS12ozWJcYWiSRcSkoOhQfLFH/+iB+SXeIKmoi/ZEV/katDtgRqoM++ FjGjPcj0SVl9Wvu0H/tbc7yn4zMb6EbdDDV/6RT765cKAn6cmI7ZeYG4kgzyFjBn1ifc 4Fd+joXoitBMsx/su68Jxo6FHSbn3HO99I1OweIKl6jepFdNz4rV9QpvdZReEuNegOxR Q2dA== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.156.141 with SMTP id x13mr6325942bkw.50.1335297930392; Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:05:30 -0700 (PDT) Sender: freemanrich@gmail.com Received: by 10.204.226.77 with HTTP; Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:05:30 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <201204241332.24934.vapier@gentoo.org> References: <4F96D8A2.7060902@gentoo.org> <201204241332.24934.vapier@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:05:30 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: jAYuxc3dR5r4k1RYN_2pStz9nWY Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal to move use.local.desc somewhere in /var From: Rich Freeman To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 4e3f19be-9ceb-4795-98c0-04065f86f9a1 X-Archives-Hash: 7366d3dc4b3e51761fa3374da50b8eba On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > it's also a bit of a speed issue. =A0i often want to look at what flags g= et used > across the tree. =A0what's faster: loading + parsing 15000 xml files, or = loading > 1 file ? shifting it to metadata/ as a cache of all the xml files is prob= ably > fine, but i'm not sure dropping it completely is an improvement. ++ Any time I add a new use flag/etc the first thing I do is look for how other packages accomplish the same thing. No sense writing scripts when we already have one that does the job. Rich