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On 03/18/2010 08:28 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:20:02 +0100 |
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> Thomas Sachau <tommy@g.o> wrote: |
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>> -change portage behaviour to be satisfied with a python slot and to |
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>> not require other slots. |
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> But then you'll never get new slots for the majority of dependencies |
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> where you do usually want the newest version. If Portage were to take |
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> existing slots, most users would still be using Python 2.4 to |
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> satisfy dependencies, and would never have had 2.5+ installed... |
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I know this part, this option was just the result of Arfrever telling me that just "dev-lang/python" |
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is the right dependency and the PM being wrong, when pulling in something unneeded. |
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python-3* might be a special case, since it is incompactible with 2* versions and wont be set as the |
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default python during install. But this results in it being useless and not needed, until either a |
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package or a user does require it explicitly. |
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So my vote goes for changing the dependency strings for affected packages. |
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Thomas Sachau |
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