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From: Dirkjan Ochtman <djc@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:22:51
Message-Id: ea2499da1003050222y3ab9dd1dx30f14fb3ba9621a1@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item by Joshua Saddler
1 On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:14, Joshua Saddler <nightmorph@g.o> wrote:
2 > Aaaand none of my packages that are installed "want" to use it. That's what I'm sayin'. Maybe if I ran ~arch they'd ask for Python 3.x, but I run stable, so *nothing* wants to use it. Every other stable user is in the same situation. You seem to be ignoring us, the stable users, in favor of rushing 3.x out of ~arch, like that makes some kind of perceived problem go away.
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4 I *am* a stable user, and I do want to install python3 (without having
5 to override keywords -- because my packager, the gentoo python team,
6 says it works!). I recognize the cruft problem, but I don't think
7 keeping things in unstable is the right solution for solving it,
8 because they should IMO be orthogonal.
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10 > Yet that's the net effect -- everyone *will* have it installed. . . unless folks start getting crafty with pseudo version ranges, as Zac mentioned.
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12 I guess we'll have to do that then.
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14 Cheers,
15
16 Dirkjan

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item Maciej Mrozowski <reavertm@×××××.com>