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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI usage
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On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Ian Stakenvicius <axs@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>
>> The primary benefit to the policy that dev's should bump EAPI when
>> bumping ebuilds is so that older inferior EAPIs can be deprecated and
>> eventually removed from the tree.
>
> What is the benefit from removing the old EAPIs?

I can answer this one...removing old EAPIs simplifies code for things
which need to be EAPI-aware. There are no bugs in code that doesn't
exist.

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