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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>, Gentoo Python Project <python@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Adding PYTHON_TARGETS=python2_7 to base profile
Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 21:05:56
Message-Id: 4FB021C5.8010805@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Adding PYTHON_TARGETS=python2_7 to base profile by Mike Gilbert
1 On 05/13/2012 01:27 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
2 > To make ebuilds utilizing python-distutils-ng.eclass usable
3 > "out-of-the-box", the python team would like to add the following to
4 > make.defaults in the base profile.
5 >
6 > PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7"
7 >
8 > See also bug 415575 [1].
9 >
10 > Any objections?
11 >
12 > I would also like to include python3_2, but I do not think this will be
13 > possible due to dev-lang/python:3.2 not being stabilized on several
14 > arches. Perhaps this could be set in arch-specific profiles? Would that
15 > work?
16
17 The thing is, on "stable" archs, we've got both stable and unstable
18 users on any given profile. So, eventually it seems like we'll want
19 something like a use.stable file in order to teak the default
20 python_targets_* flags for stable users, as suggested here:
21
22 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=415575#c5
23 --
24 Thanks,
25 Zac