Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH news] Add Python 3.9 news item

[Michał Górny]

On Thu, 2021-04-29 at 21:07 -0400, Wolfgang E. Sanyer wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 5:00 PM Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 2021-04-29 at 14:44 +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> > > > > > > > On Thu, 29 Apr 2021, Michał Górny wrote:
> > >
> > > > +Title: Python 3.9 to become the default target on 2021-06-01
> > >
> > > Title is longer than the maximum allowed by GLEP 42 (50 chars).
> > >
> > > > [...]
> > >
> > > > +If you have PYTHON_TARGETS or PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET declared
> > > > +in make.conf, it is strongly recommended to remove the declarations
> > > > +and use package.use as presented above.  Use of make.conf to set
> > > > flags
> > > > +is strongly discouraged as it does not respect package defaults.
> > >
> > > These sentences are somewhat redundant with each other, at least the
> > > "strongly recommended" / "strongly discouraged" part.
> >
> > Done and done.  The second sentence is meant to explain why it is
> > discouraged.
> >
> > --
> > Best regards,
> > Michał Górny
> >
>
> Is this strongly discouraged across-the-board, or strictly for this
> python stuff?

The same issue applies to all uses of USE_EXPAND, though not all of them
are using package defaults today.  But if you move one of them, why not
move them all?

> How strongly is it discouraged? The handbook doesn't seem to mention
> anything about discouraging this practice, and indeed seems to
> encourage it: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Base#Configuring_the_USE_variable
>

The times when Gentoo had great documentation are long gone.  Handbook
is barely maintained these days.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny