[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] A news item covering PYTHON_TARGETS

[Mike Gilbert]

On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Since some ebuilds are using that variable already and we still didn't
> inform most of our users if and how they should set it, I'd like to
> commit the following news item:
>
> Title: PYTHON_TARGETS deployment
> Author: Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o>
> Content-Type: text/plain
> Posted: 2012-10-29
> Revision: 1
> News-Item-Format: 1.0
>
> Lately, a new Python eclasses were deployed and the way of supporting
> multiple Python implementations changes with ebuilds being migrated
> to them. While before the implementations being installed were used
> by default, the migrated packages will instead use explicit choice based
> on PYTHON_TARGETS USE flags. This may require action from some of our
> users.
>
> If you are running a modern system with Python 2.7 & 3.2, and you didn't
> set USE_PYTHON, then you don't have to do anything. The defaults
> will fit you.
>
> Otherwise, you will want to set PYTHON_TARGETS in your make.conf file.
> This is a regular USE_EXPAND variable listing requested Python
> implementations like:
>
>         PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_2 pypy1_9 jython2_5"
>
> The variable should list all requested Python implementations.
> A complete list of possible values can be obtained using a command like:
>
>         emerge -1pv dev-python/python-exec
>

Good idea to inform users.

Is there a way to have this news item go away, say after a year or so?
Every time I do a fresh install, I get hit with a couple of
"perpetual" news items, and it is a little annoying.