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On 03/20/2010 02:56 AM, Jean-Marc Hengen wrote: |
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> Duncan wrote: |
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>> ... |
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> ++ - I can only add the saying "With freedom comes great responsibility.". |
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> Maybe the python herd could maintain a little status page which covers |
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> informations like: |
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> - Estimated python 3 compatibility in respect to the packages in the |
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> main tree. |
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That would be easy enough to generate from dependencies. Surely |
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there are some dependencies that need to be updated, but that |
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shouldn't be much work. For example, I've already updated the |
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cracklib and libxml2 deps to indicate lack of python3 support. |
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> - Recommendations if installing makes sense or not (e.g. package X gains |
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> feature Y with python 3). |
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> - Recommendations if setting python 3 as system engine makes already |
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> sense or not. |
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> This way gentoo can give its users the tools needed to make a good |
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> decision if python 3 makes sense on his system. For me as a user I need |
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> more time to study if an action makes sense than implementing said |
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> action (e.g. locally masking python 3 - It would not be the first time |
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> masking a package). If one isn't into python, it gets even more complicated. |
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I would advise people to go ahead and install it as long as they can |
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spare a little disk space and cpu time. Anybody who is tight on |
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those resources should feel free to mask it (and the dependency |
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resolver will certainly notify you if this is not feasible in your |
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case). Honestly, I don't see a need for lots of data analysis here, |
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but maybe some people just like that kind of thing. |
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Thanks, |
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Zac |
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