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I am going to stay out of the never ending debate on which type of brake to use and just be pragmatic.
If you have two hoses that will be too short, if you think about it you might actually have one hose that is a bit too long and one hose that is really short. In other words, can you move the long rear hose to the front and then only buy one new hose?
And if you did not want to buy a new hose, maybe switch the rear hose to front and then go to a new mechanical for rear?