Re: [gentoo-python] [PATCH] Support overriding PYTHON_COMPAT.

[Michał Górny]

On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 17:10:26 +0400
"Nikolaj Sjujskij" <sterkrig@×××××××.com> wrote:

> Den 2013-03-13 23:49:33 skrev Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o>:
>
> > It couldn't work properly, so I withdrawn it. The major problem is that
> > metadata becomes affected by environmental variables.
> >
> > Sadly, portage can't handle that nicely. Usually, it just results in
> > portage 'sticking' with one particular set of USE flags on the package
> > and trying to use the other one at the same time. In other words, a lot
> > of random behavior and QA warnings.
> >
> > Probably, the nearest thing that could work is PYTHON_COMPAT_OVERRIDE
> > which doesn't use the USE flags but instead forces all impls listed.
>   I see... Well, that's unfortunate, I hoped to test pylint with it,
> hacking ebuild just for changing PYTHON_COMPAT isn't much fun.

Do you consider it useful enough if PYTHON_COMPAT_OVERRIDE affected
the build process only? Most importantly, visible USE flags
and dependency resolution wouldn't be affected.

I asked Zac about a possibility of disabling cache conditionally
to a variable but I don't think that reached anywhere.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny