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| From: | Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-dev@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI and system packages | ||
| Date: | Sun, 20 Sep 2009 11:53:49 | ||
| Message-Id: | 20090920125341.05e795d7@snowcone | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI and system packages by Richard Freeman |
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| 1 | On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 07:28:40 -0400 |
| 2 | Richard Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
| 3 | > I can see why package managers would benefit from fewer cases to |
| 4 | > support, however... |
| 5 | |
| 6 | Doesn't make any difference to package managers. Support for old EAPIs |
| 7 | has to remain around indefinitely to uninstall things anyway. Also, the |
| 8 | cost's mostly in implementing a feature, which is a one-shot thing; the |
| 9 | code that says which features are in which EAPIs is tiny. |
| 10 | |
| 11 | -- |
| 12 | Ciaran McCreesh |
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