Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Splitting dev-lang/python into per-slot packages, starting with 3.14

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

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On Sat, 2024-10-12 at 10:50 +0200, Luca Barbato wrote:
> On 12/10/24 10:12, Michał Górny wrote:
> > Comments?
> > 
> I'm afraid it would lead to way too many packages and I'm not sure the 
> overall experience would be an improvement.

5 are too many?

> With your proposed solution, if an user wants to have any version of 
> python what should ask to emerge?

Can you actually imagine having a Gentoo system with no Python
preinstalled, with an user actually needing to emerge one?

In fact, even today "emerge dev-lang/python" is probably a bad solution,
as it will lead to a beta/rc version on an ~arch system most
of the time.

> An alternative for freethreading support wouldn't be to install both 
> from the same package python-3.14 and have the two PYTHON_TARGETS ?

I don't understand.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny


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