On Monday, June 27, 2011 12:00:19 Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 17:53, Petteri Räty <betelgeuse@g.o> wrote:
> > I like the ruby approach for the reason that it doesn't require users to
> > run update scripts like python-updater.
> 
> Sure, but if that means the developers now have to bump every package
> in the tree when a new version of Python comes out, I'm not sure
> that's the best trade-off.

if that's the requirement, i'd lean towards the python route we have today.  
especially because python-updater will hit all necessary packages where-as 
ruby will often not as that requires you to do `emerge -u <all installed 
packages>`.
-mike