Re: [gentoo-dev] Actions of python team, especially Arfrever wrt python eclass and python-3*

[Thomas Sachau]

Am 05.06.2010 20:31, schrieb Harald van Dijk:
> On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 05:49:08PM +0200, Thomas Sachau wrote:
>> If any package does inherit python or distutils eclass, then those eclasses do pull in
>> "dev-lang/python", which is unversioned, so it will always pull in the latest version, in this case
>> python-3*. You could change this, so it allows any major installed slot to satisfy the python
>> dependency.
>
> A dependency on dev-lang/python *is* satisfied by any slot, any version. You've
> been told so already, if I recall correctly.
>
>

Every slot and every version *should* satisfy a "dev-lang/python" dependency, but currently such
unspecified version dependency does automaticly pull in the latest version/slot, which in case of
python does mean python-3*, even when you have e.g. python:2.6 installed.

-- 
Thomas Sachau

Gentoo Linux Developer