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From: Dirkjan Ochtman <djc@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] The Python problem
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 07:20:34
Message-Id: BANLkTin-VwGk1bdp3ya0A9TGHAZ=DtTVTA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] The Python problem by Joshua Saddler
1 On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 08:54, Joshua Saddler <nightmorph@g.o> wrote:
2 > This would be nice, but unfortunately the python maintainer forced
3 > 3.x on everyone, despite the fact that nothing uses it and no one
4 > really wanted it made the default. So now it's shipped with all the
5 > stage tarballs, in addition to 2.7. You've got it whether you want it
6 > or not.
7 >
8 > This is one of the things that needs to be rescinded, along with the
9 > python eclass changes. Get everyone down to just one version
10 > of python installed.
11
12 It's just slotting like everything else. (There's an open bug for the stages.)
13
14 Cheers,
15
16 Dirkjan

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Re: [gentoo-dev] The Python problem "Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto" <jmbsvicetto@g.o>