On Tue, 4 May 2010, Fabian Groffen wrote:

> 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.

there any update how python is going ?  just noticed that gentoo 
(non-prefix) is getting ready to stablize python-3

matt