On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:09:38 +0200, Dirkjan Ochtman <djc@g.o>
wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 19:06, Alex Legler <a3li@g.o> wrote:
> > What is the point of stabilizing it if users shouldn't use it as
> > main interpreter? Just leave it in ~arch until it can be safely
> > used.
> 
> Making it easily available so that people can port stuff, so that the
> entire world may be able to use it as their main interpreter sooner?
> 

Don't you think that ~arch makes it easily available enough for people
who *want* to port stuff? 
If I run stable Gentoo, I'm interested in a /stable/ system(tm) and not
the latest Python version that people are still fiddling with.
Especially since the Gentoo core system extensively uses Python. By the
way, does Portage work with Python 3 yet?

> Seriously, it's out there, there's no reason to keep it from stable.
> Just prevent people from making python invoke 3.x and everything will
> be fine.
> 

Yeah, right, let's install it on all those stable machines, but then
not use it.

Way to go!
Alex