> I don't remember the details  right now, but I remember speaking with
> vapier when I first started working on openrc, and he stated that he
> felt we should stay away from higher eapis for system packages.
> 
> I don't really remember his reasoning for that right now, but I remember
> that is why I didn't migrate the ebuild to a higher eapi a while back.

Ebuild installability on horribly outdated systems? (where portage is too old to
support recent EAPIs).

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  Sergei