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 1O2rkQ-0005fz-VC for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:02:44 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D4DA2E0ABE; Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:02:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eagle.jhcloos.com (eagle.jhcloos.com [207.210.242.212]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B980E0A7E for ; Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:02:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eagle.jhcloos.com (Postfix, from userid 10) id 8C64C4016D; Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:01:49 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=jhcloos.com; s=eagle; t=1271448133; bh=r0gZOnwcbIL7hmMelgBRZgy9G/VDyX1Yvg7SEq9uDl4=; h=From:To:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:Message-ID: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=L/OQ4D4zyxIFppFcRSTR6avPZMwzZqBJIBAICQR+RZkeASvY86PXtRJCwEJx2isrJ vZTMZcVllKx1V5YgjMsEgEr3HiIHGR+dPMP3eiRVFOcNxHRP6S3u/ooAwe0C1tzYOq FwewZ1gS9ZWTA+sm6xyCmE6KNLNDnClpKU+/oGKo= Received: from lugabout.jhcloos.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lugabout.jhcloos.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 751B4A0104 for ; Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:01:19 +0000 (UTC) From: James Cloos To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] perl eclass review - EAPI=3 + new helper eclass In-Reply-To: <4BC3A4E3.3010604@gentoo.org> (Zac Medico's message of "Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:55:31 -0700") References: <20100330111154.GA28735@veller.net> <4BB536DC.8090405@gentoo.org> <4BBB7FDE.7090306@gentoo.org> <20100412180053.GI16738@hrair> <4BC3A4E3.3010604@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAQCAYAAAAf8/9hAAAABHNCSVQICAgIfAhkiAAAAI1J REFUOE+lU9ESgCAIg64P1y+ngUdxhl5H8wFbbM0OmUiEhKkCYaZThXCo6KE5sCbA1DDX3genvO4d eBQgEMaM5qy6uWk4SfBYfdu9jvBN9nSVDOKRtwb+I3epboOsOX5pZbJNsBJFvmQQ05YMfieIBnYX FK2N6dOawd97r/e8RjkTLzmMsiVgrAoEugtviCM3v2WzjgAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== Copyright: Copyright 2009 James Cloos OpenPGP: ED7DAEA6; url=http://jhcloos.com/public_key/0xED7DAEA6.asc OpenPGP-Fingerprint: E9E9 F828 61A4 6EA9 0F2B 63E7 997A 9F17 ED7D AEA6 Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:00:54 -0400 Message-ID: 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Hashcash: 1:30:100416:gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org::XUprWeG2dqIqTwf0:000000000000000000000000000000000DurUQ X-Archives-Salt: 3656b366-3ccf-4358-94e9-41c6dd52ab07 X-Archives-Hash: 9811b205aadfd5a09109f9b5f4349328 >>>>> "ZM" == Zac Medico writes: ZM> It's called eclass-overrides and it's been mentioned earlier in the thread. But that is useless unless you ignore the metadata cache. And ignoring the metadata cache makes portage unusably slow. It needs to work exacly as I described it. And lets not forget that the current situation is in fact a regression. -JimC -- James Cloos OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6