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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@...>
Subject: Re: EAPI and system packages
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 12:53:41 +0100
On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 07:28:40 -0400
Richard Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:
> I can see why package managers would benefit from fewer cases to 
> support, however...

Doesn't make any difference to package managers. Support for old EAPIs
has to remain around indefinitely to uninstall things anyway. Also, the
cost's mostly in implementing a feature, which is a one-shot thing; the
code that says which features are in which EAPIs is tiny.

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Ciaran McCreesh
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