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From: "Wolfgang E. Sanyer" <wolfgangesanyer@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH news] Add Python 3.9 news item
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2021 01:07:33
Message-Id: CACwN4LwbdwNo2_UoJjNr=S+ihG-OefG_N-nGtGd7VKf5TSoERQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH news] Add Python 3.9 news item by "Michał Górny"
1 On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 5:00 PM Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
2 >
3 > On Thu, 2021-04-29 at 14:44 +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
4 > > > > > > > On Thu, 29 Apr 2021, Michał Górny wrote:
5 > >
6 > > > +Title: Python 3.9 to become the default target on 2021-06-01
7 > >
8 > > Title is longer than the maximum allowed by GLEP 42 (50 chars).
9 > >
10 > > > [...]
11 > >
12 > > > +If you have PYTHON_TARGETS or PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET declared
13 > > > +in make.conf, it is strongly recommended to remove the declarations
14 > > > +and use package.use as presented above. Use of make.conf to set
15 > > > flags
16 > > > +is strongly discouraged as it does not respect package defaults.
17 > >
18 > > These sentences are somewhat redundant with each other, at least the
19 > > "strongly recommended" / "strongly discouraged" part.
20 >
21 > Done and done. The second sentence is meant to explain why it is
22 > discouraged.
23 >
24 > --
25 > Best regards,
26 > Michał Górny
27 >
28
29 Is this strongly discouraged across-the-board, or strictly for this
30 python stuff?
31
32 How strongly is it discouraged? The handbook doesn't seem to mention
33 anything about discouraging this practice, and indeed seems to
34 encourage it: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Base#Configuring_the_USE_variable

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Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH news] Add Python 3.9 news item "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>