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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Reverse use of Python/Ruby versions
Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2017 21:52:59
Message-Id: 1c3c5bd1-a697-25fd-4851-2f850b2ba06a@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Reverse use of Python/Ruby versions by "William L. Thomson Jr."
1 On 04/09/2017 12:15 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
2 > Not sure if this is practical, it may be less work if the use of
3 > Python and Ruby versions ( maybe others ) is reversed. Rather than
4 > adding all the versions that the ebuild supports. What if it only
5 > included versions it did not support?
6
7 Even if this would work better, it would require retraining all
8 developers, completely rewriting several eclasses, tons of
9 documentation, and a few thousand ebuilds.
10
11 No one's going to jump on that bandwagon without a proof-of-concept that
12 works much better than what we have now.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Reverse use of Python/Ruby versions "William L. Thomson Jr." <wlt-ml@××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Reverse use of Python/Ruby versions Francesco Riosa <vivo75@×××××.com>