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From: Mike Auty <ikelos@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: Jim Ramsay <lack@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] app-editors/vim-7.3 and python[3] USE flags
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:04:26
Message-Id: 4C6E4501.7080802@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] app-editors/vim-7.3 and python[3] USE flags by Jim Ramsay
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4 I'd thought that the new eclass was designed to ensure that if you asked
5 for USE="python" it was built for as many different python ABIs as was
6 installed on your system (so python2 and python3 if they're both
7 installed). I believe it's possible to ask the eclass which ABIs are
8 installed, and ask for the either in-use or highest versions of those.
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10 If they're not mutually exclusive, and if vim won't break if they go
11 away, then why should the user choose which ones to enable and disable?
12 Why not just get them to say whether they want python support or not,
13 and try to accomodate them for as many python versions as
14 installed/possible.
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16 I realize there may be some controversy surrounding the new python
17 eclass, however that does seem to be how most python packages work these
18 days, so I'd say it's better to keep everything working the same way.
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20 Mike 5:)
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