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

[Mitchell Dorrell <mwd@psc.edu>]

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On Sat, Oct 12, 2024, 06:23 Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Sat, 2024-10-12 at 12:13 +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> > > > > > > On Sat, 12 Oct 2024, Michał Górny wrote:
> >
> > > > IMHO this would abuse the package name for information that
> absolutely
> > > > doesn't belong there. It belongs in PV or SLOT.
> > > >
> > > > To me it seems that you try to work around a problem (greedy upgrade
> > > > behaviour) that should really be solved in the package manager.
> >
> > > In my opinion, it's the other way around.  We have slots, that are a
> fit
> > > solution for packages that are roughly compatible between every major
> > > release, and we keep abusing them for every single thing we can bend
> > > enough to make it fit.
> >
> > So are you saying that Python versions aren't "roughly compatible"
> > between releases? Like, they're a completely different language?
>
> They're not compatible in the sense "if I install package for
> python3.12, it will work in python3.13", because every version uses
> a separate package tree.  Upstream has effectively made every version
> separate.  On top of that, the same "minor" version can have a PyPy
> variation and a "freethreading" variation now.
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Michał Górny
>

How will this affect ebuilds that can use any version of Python 3? Will it
need a giant or-block in DEPEND?

>

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