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From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
To: Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/3] dev-util/meson: install meson-array script
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2020 21:26:09
Message-Id: CAJ0EP42_ZGxZ5OcjMGSdF9AJ4JOUc7Fnifw8Gjh2XbzWbaMFAw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/3] dev-util/meson: install meson-array script by William Hubbs
1 On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 3:48 PM William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
2 > If both /usr/bin/python and /usr/bin/python3 are going away, the best
3 > choice would be to add functionality to python-exec or eselect python to tell us
4 > the path to the default python interpretor. Once we know that we call it
5 > directly.
6
7 I don't think they are "going away". There is a USE flag on
8 dev-lang/python-exec that makes them optional, and I think it will be
9 forcibly enabled for the foreseeable future.
10
11 > Please do not apply this patch to meson; I think we can figure something
12 > out that is better.
13
14 I think installing a small script to help translate arguments from one
15 format to another is a reasonable solution.

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