2010-03-19 10:23:31 Dale napisał(a):
> Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:54:28 -0500
> > Dale<rdalek1967@...>  wrote:
> >    
> >> Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> >>      
> >>> On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:17:17 +0100
> >>> Ben de Groot<yngwin@g.o>   wrote:
> >>>
> >>>        
> >>>> Because it is extremely useless to the great majority of users.
> >>>>
> >>>>          
> >>> Most packages in the tree are useless to the great majority of
> >>> users.
> >>>        
> >> Which is why most users don't install everything.  I have about 1000
> >> packages installed here.  The packages installed are either something
> >> I use or a dependency of something I use.  What exactly is this being
> >> installed for again?  If nothing depends on it, there is no need to
> >> have it.
> >>      
> > It's being installed because it's a dependency of something you use.
> >
> > Replace Python with any other library and we wouldn't be having this
> > discussion.
> >
> >    
> 
> OK.  Right now, as you type this, what package depends on python-3 and 
> won't work with python-2?  Anything at all?  If it is nothing, then why 
> install it?
> 
> Since python-3 is not what the system is using, it's not getting used 
> even if it is installed.  So as I mentioned in another reply, portage is 
> installing something and it is just sitting there doing nothing.  What 
> is the point in that?

I can add "python2" USE flag (enabled by default) to some versions of
dev-lang/python. With USE="-python2", Python 2 will not be required and
Python 3 will be set as main active version of Python.

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