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From: Florian Philipp <lists@××××××××××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Disabling auto-bumping of active Python version
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 21:43:20
Message-Id: 4CE057CE.50303@f_philipp.fastmail.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Disabling auto-bumping of active Python version by Sebastian Pipping
1 Am 14.11.2010 17:28, schrieb Sebastian Pipping:
2 >
3 > With Python, when you install a newer version if gets activated, leaving
4 > your system in broken state. An update of Python always involves
5 > running python-updater. If the user/admin has to run that anyway, why
6 > should we take the call to eselect python off his shoulders, especially
7 > we break the system doing so?
8 >
9 > So I plan to remove the call to eselect_python_update from all Python
10 > ebuilds in two weeks from now.
11 [...]
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13 Is there a chance to do the same for perl and perl-cleaner?
14
15 I understand perl is not slotted at the moment and there are probably
16 good technical reasons for not doing so but I still wanted to ask. :)
17
18 There are similar issues with ocaml and ocaml-rebuild.sh.
19
20 Best regards,
21 Florian Philipp

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