On 03-05-2010 16:55:58 -0500, mattmatteh@... wrote:
> > As you may or may not know, the Python package that the Prefix tree
> > contains is far from similar to the original from the gentoo-x86 tree.
> 
> > Patches like those simply contradict the
> > vision of Python's upstream.
> 
> > So what should we do?  One of the differences between Prefix python and
> > gx86 python is the addition of the "aqua" USE-flag.  We need it for some
> > packages, in particular for the last remaining package in dev-python in
> > the Prefix tree: wxpython.  So always keeping an overlay version won't
> > work in this respect.  What are the alternatives?  Create a
> > python-prefix package, that is under maintenance of the prefix team?
> > Would mean we have to fix depstrings all over the place, but as last
> > resort?
> >
> >
> > [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317091
> 
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317091#c4  suggest you can work 
> with upstream.   is this possible ?   the prefix team has done an amazing 
> job so far and i think the best solution is to try to work with upstream 
> so there are minimal differences between upstream and gx86 and prefix.  i 
> dont think you want a python-prefix, seems like alot of work.

If upstream would also want to work with us, yes.  Our bugs are largely
ignored or closed/wontfixed.  And given the amount of bugs and patches
at other distributions I feel we're absolutely not alone in that world.


-- 
Fabian Groffen
Gentoo on a different level