On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Ian Stakenvicius <a...@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. -- :wq
