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On Tue, 4 May 2010, Fabian Groffen wrote: |
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> On 03-05-2010 16:55:58 -0500, mattmatteh@×××××.com wrote: |
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>>> As you may or may not know, the Python package that the Prefix tree |
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>>> contains is far from similar to the original from the gentoo-x86 tree. |
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>>> Patches like those simply contradict the |
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>>> vision of Python's upstream. |
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>>> So what should we do? One of the differences between Prefix python and |
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>>> gx86 python is the addition of the "aqua" USE-flag. We need it for some |
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>>> packages, in particular for the last remaining package in dev-python in |
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>>> the Prefix tree: wxpython. So always keeping an overlay version won't |
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>>> work in this respect. What are the alternatives? Create a |
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>>> python-prefix package, that is under maintenance of the prefix team? |
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>>> Would mean we have to fix depstrings all over the place, but as last |
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>>> resort? |
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>>> [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317091 |
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>> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317091#c4 suggest you can work |
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>> with upstream. is this possible ? the prefix team has done an amazing |
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>> job so far and i think the best solution is to try to work with upstream |
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>> so there are minimal differences between upstream and gx86 and prefix. i |
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>> dont think you want a python-prefix, seems like alot of work. |
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> If upstream would also want to work with us, yes. Our bugs are largely |
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> ignored or closed/wontfixed. And given the amount of bugs and patches |
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> at other distributions I feel we're absolutely not alone in that world. |
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there any update how python is going ? just noticed that gentoo |
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(non-prefix) is getting ready to stablize python-3 |
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matt |