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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:34:27
Message-Id: 4AB691B1.3050403@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1 by "Petteri Räty"
1 Petteri Räty wrote:
2 > Every Gentoo system where world or system includes deps like
3 >> =dev-lang/python-2.5 will get it installed because in this case Portage
4 > will automatically update to the latest slot at least according to my
5 > quick research. I don't like putting stuff to users systems that they
6 > have no need for.
7
8 For portage-2.1.7 I'm planning to add version range detection, so
9 ebuilds like that can use <dev-lang/python-3.0 in order to prevent
10 incompatible new versions of python from being pulled in
11 unnecessarily. See this bug:
12
13 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285767
14 --
15 Thanks,
16 Zac