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On 24 March 2010 19:41, Richard Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 03/24/2010 02:28 PM, Joshua Saddler wrote: |
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>> On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:04:51 +0100 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar |
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>> Arahesis<Arfrever@g.o> wrote: |
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>>> People, don't want Python 3, probably have already masked it. There |
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>>> is no reason to waste Council's time for decision on what sentence |
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>>> should be included in the news item. |
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>> Not the folks running the stable tree, because they don't know about |
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>> it. They're not following the discussion here on -dev. They're going |
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>> to get unpleasantly surprised when it shows up in their next world |
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>> update. |
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>> Include instructions on how to mask it if desired in the news item. |
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> Will not masking python-3 cause anything to break in any way? Do users need |
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> to do anything to make python-2.6 or whatever the default interpreter |
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> (instructions for using eselect python are not given in the news item)? |
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> If the only potential issue is that users might have a few extra files |
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> installed that they don't need but which won't cause them problems, then I |
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> don't know that we need to instruct users to create masks. |
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> If having python-3 will cause stable users problems, then we probably |
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> shouldn't be stabilizing it anyway. |
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> Compared to the KDE 3->4 migration this is probably going to be a fairly |
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> minor issue for most stable users, unless we're expecting breakage. |
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> Rich |
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Did you even read the whole thread? And the other one named |
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"Packages pulling in python-3*, also they dont require it"? |
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Ben de Groot |
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Gentoo Linux Qt project lead developer |
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