Re: [gentoo-dev] Please port your packages to Python 3.8

[Michael Orlitzky]

On 2020-09-02 14:08, Andreas Sturmlechner wrote:
> On Wednesday, 2 September 2020 19:42:33 CEST Michael Orlitzky wrote:
>> New USE flags generally change dependencies (as is the case here), so a
>> new revision ensures that people are forced to install the ebuild that
>> supports python-3.8. Otherwise, you will eventually find a lot of people
>> stuck unable to upgrade because they have an ebuild installed that only
>> supports <=python-3.7, and were never prompted to install the copy that
>> supports python-3.8.
>
> Python target changes must be done with -U, also documented by the
> accompanying repository news item, not really a problem.
>

If you want to write the GLEP that obsoletes the PMS, I might even
support it at this point. But until then, requiring --changed-use to
have a functional system is not allowed. Any PMS-compliant package
manager must be able to use ::gentoo, including one that does not
implement portage-only heuristics.