Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

[Pacho Ramos]

El vie, 26-03-2010 a las 05:10 -0700, Zac Medico escribió:
> > Hello
> >
> > Maybe I have misunderstood anything (since I don't know much about
> > python stuff) but, what would occur if I forget to mask python-3 and
> > don't run python-updater. My plans would be to try to delay
> > python-updater running until I switch to use python3, because some
> > machines I maintain are quite old and takes some time to re-emerge all
> > python apps :-/
> >
> > Thanks for the info
>
> If you don't want to run python-updater, then you'd better mask
> python3 and uninstall it. Otherwise, you'll encounter build failures
> due to new packages trying to build for python3 when their
> dependencies haven't been rebuilt with python3 support. There's no
> harm done since it's easy to mask and uninstall python3 at this
> point, thereby avoiding the need to run python-updater.

Thanks a lot Zac for the explanation

Arfrever, could this be noted in news item? I mean, since you are
clearly in favor of python3 stabilization, you have prepared news item
and *seems to me* that you prefer to not suggest or "recommend" its
local masking in that news item, maybe you could find a way to write
news informing users that they will need mask new python if they prefer
to postpone python-updater run (since I think some users, like me, will
prefer to not rebuild lots of packages until most of them will work with
newer python), that way it wouldn't "sound" as much like a "generic
recommendation" but more like a needed step for users not wanting to run
python-updater yet (that would be like a "special case" common enough to
take care of it).

Would it be ok for you? Maybe that way most of us could reach a
consensus on this :-)

Thanks a lot