Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 2.7.4, 3.2.4, 3.3.1 updates

[Mike Gilbert]

On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 9:14 PM, heroxbd <heroxbd@g.o> wrote:
> Dear Mike,
>
> Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o> writes:
>
>> This seems like a good opportunity to add slot operator deps and
>> remove some prefix workarounds. We can keep an old ebuild around to
>> facilitate upgrades if we need to.
>
> What kind of prefix workaround are you referring to?
>

Nothing too exciting; just some logic to define EPREFIX in EAPI 2. A
simple upgrade to EAPI 3 would suffice for that.

> This reminds me that Prefix team is maintaining aqua support (GUI for
> Mac OS X) in Python in their own overlay for a long time. I'd like to
> see it merged to gx86. If feasible, I am going to run out a patch for
> review.
>

Sounds good to me. Is it something that can be submitted upstream, at
least for Python 3.3+?