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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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