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From: Steven J Long <slong@rathaus.eclipse.co.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Proposal to move use.local.desc somewhere in /var
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 07:26:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jn856e$v49$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 201204241332.24934.vapier@gentoo.org

Mike Frysinger wrote:

> Paul Varner wrote:
>> Robin H. Johnson wrote:
>> > 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.
> 
> 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

Agreed. I don't think it's a good idea to lose the ability to script against 
the tree from bash.

Portage itself has always made it easy for the user to write custom sys-
admin scripts, and use.local.desc aids in that.

-- 
#friendly-coders -- We're friendly, but we're not /that/ friendly ;-)





  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-04-25  6:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-24 14:11 [gentoo-dev] Proposal to move use.local.desc somewhere in /var Theo Chatzimichos
2012-04-24 14:37 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-04-24 14:45   ` Michał Górny
2012-04-24 14:59     ` Brian Dolbec
2012-04-24 15:06       ` Theo Chatzimichos
2012-04-24 16:21 ` Robin H. Johnson
2012-04-24 16:45   ` Paul Varner
2012-04-24 17:32     ` Mike Frysinger
2012-04-24 20:05       ` Rich Freeman
2012-04-25  6:26       ` Steven J Long [this message]
2012-04-25 15:51         ` [gentoo-dev] " Mike Frysinger
2012-04-28  1:02           ` [gentoo-dev] " Steven J Long

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