On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Tom Wijsman <tom...@gentoo.org> wrote: > Apart from that, they however sit in the way of deprecating support for > that EAPI; at one point it becomes tedious to have to support 10 EAPIs > in our code (eg. Portage), hence we should aim to deprecate versions of > a few years old. Keeping old stuff around can take its toll...
Sure, but Patrick was explicitly talking about a burden on developers, not a burden on package manager implementers. Cheers, Dirkjan