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From: Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI usage
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 13:29:47
Message-Id: CA+czFiDeqUYhWaRUjjDpxOs2qNomPaN2CsK9g+g5n6YdhDXtEw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI usage by Rich Freeman
1 On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:
2 > On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o> wrote:
3 >>
4 >> The primary benefit to the policy that dev's should bump EAPI when
5 >> bumping ebuilds is so that older inferior EAPIs can be deprecated and
6 >> eventually removed from the tree.
7 >
8 > What is the benefit from removing the old EAPIs?
9
10 I can answer this one...removing old EAPIs simplifies code for things
11 which need to be EAPI-aware. There are no bugs in code that doesn't
12 exist.
13
14 --
15 :wq

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Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI usage Thomas Sachau <tommy@g.o>