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On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 5:00 PM Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Thu, 2021-04-29 at 14:44 +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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> > > > > > > On Thu, 29 Apr 2021, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> > > +Title: Python 3.9 to become the default target on 2021-06-01 |
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> > Title is longer than the maximum allowed by GLEP 42 (50 chars). |
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> > > [...] |
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> > > +If you have PYTHON_TARGETS or PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET declared |
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> > > +in make.conf, it is strongly recommended to remove the declarations |
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> > > +and use package.use as presented above. Use of make.conf to set |
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> > > flags |
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> > > +is strongly discouraged as it does not respect package defaults. |
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> > These sentences are somewhat redundant with each other, at least the |
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> > "strongly recommended" / "strongly discouraged" part. |
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> Done and done. The second sentence is meant to explain why it is |
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> discouraged. |
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> -- |
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> Best regards, |
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> Michał Górny |
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Is this strongly discouraged across-the-board, or strictly for this |
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python stuff? |
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How strongly is it discouraged? The handbook doesn't seem to mention |
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anything about discouraging this practice, and indeed seems to |
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encourage it: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Base#Configuring_the_USE_variable |