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From: Dirkjan Ochtman <djc@g.o>
To: Gentoo Development <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Tightening EAPI rules
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 13:25:08
Message-Id: CAKmKYaCM0hPk=VVPtqf1Vt4YEQQ_VPcLkXsfuO4FLZHo_ZmdOA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Tightening EAPI rules by Tom Wijsman
1 On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Tom Wijsman <TomWij@g.o> wrote:
2 > Apart from that, they however sit in the way of deprecating support for
3 > that EAPI; at one point it becomes tedious to have to support 10 EAPIs
4 > in our code (eg. Portage), hence we should aim to deprecate versions of
5 > a few years old. Keeping old stuff around can take its toll...
6
7 Sure, but Patrick was explicitly talking about a burden on developers,
8 not a burden on package manager implementers.
9
10 Cheers,
11
12 Dirkjan

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Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Tightening EAPI rules Tom Wijsman <TomWij@g.o>