Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages pulling in python-3*, also they dont require it
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:28:18
Message-Id: 20100318192806.48ede145@snowcone
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Packages pulling in python-3*, also they dont require it by Thomas Sachau
1 On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:20:02 +0100
2 Thomas Sachau <tommy@g.o> wrote:
3 > -change portage behaviour to be satisfied with a python slot and to
4 > not require other slots.
5
6 But then you'll never get new slots for the majority of dependencies
7 where you do usually want the newest version. If Portage were to take
8 existing slots, most users would still be using Python 2.4 to
9 satisfy dependencies, and would never have had 2.5+ installed...
10
11 --
12 Ciaran McCreesh

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