Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: "Harald van Dijk" <truedfx@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Actions of python team, especially Arfrever wrt python eclass and python-3*
Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2010 18:32:22
Message-Id: 20100605183154.GA19296@boostbox
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Actions of python team, especially Arfrever wrt python eclass and python-3* by Thomas Sachau
1 On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 05:49:08PM +0200, Thomas Sachau wrote:
2 > If any package does inherit python or distutils eclass, then those eclasses do pull in
3 > "dev-lang/python", which is unversioned, so it will always pull in the latest version, in this case
4 > python-3*. You could change this, so it allows any major installed slot to satisfy the python
5 > dependency.
6
7 A dependency on dev-lang/python *is* satisfied by any slot, any version. You've
8 been told so already, if I recall correctly.

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