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?

Dale

:-)  :-)