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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: remi@g.o, python@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] The problem with new dev-python/argparse and REQUIRED_USE
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2012 09:30:02
Message-Id: 20121102102955.5c8e4d7f@pomiocik.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] The problem with new dev-python/argparse and REQUIRED_USE by "Rémi Cardona"
1 On Fri, 02 Nov 2012 10:22:44 +0100
2 Rémi Cardona <remi@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > Le jeudi 01 novembre 2012 à 23:30 +0100, Michał Górny a écrit :
5 > > Do you have any ideas how to solve that kind of stalemate?
6 >
7 > How about a carefully crafted news item inviting users to enable the
8 > latest python version and to emerge -C argparse afterwards?
9
10 Well, I think that solves only the issue when users have argparse
11 in their @world. If something still depends on it on their system, it
12 will be pulled in back with the REQUIRED_USE issue.
13
14 The news item is probably basically the same as installing with
15 warnings, except that the latter would show only to affected users,
16 I guess.
17
18 --
19 Best regards,
20 Michał Górny

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