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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
Cc: Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>, Gentoo Python Project <python@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [PATCH python-utils-r1 3/4] Ban calling pythonY and pythonY-config when pythonX is used
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2015 21:47:10
Message-Id: 20150726234644.17a4a8e8@pomiot
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: [PATCH python-utils-r1 3/4] Ban calling pythonY and pythonY-config when pythonX is used by Mike Gilbert
1 Dnia 2015-07-26, o godz. 11:14:50
2 Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o> napisał(a):
3
4 > On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 6:37 AM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
5 > > Ban calling python3{,-config} when python2 is used, and the other way
6 > > around. While this will not prevent configure scripts from finding the
7 > > other Python version, it will cause them to fail eventually trying to
8 > > use it. Currently those attempt were able to pass through thanks to
9 > > python-config providing python{2,3} symlinks.
10 >
11 > Do you anticipate this will break existing ebuilds then? It probably
12 > makes sense, I just want to be prepared for any backlash or mass of
13 > bugs.
14
15 Yes, I suspect a few ebuilds can break. However, I've tinderboxed this
16 against @world and gnome3, and all worked fine. So maybe it's not as
17 bad as I thought and only a few rarely used ebuilds will break :).
18
19 --
20 Best regards,
21 Michał Górny
22 <http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>