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From: Tom Wijsman <TomWij@g.o>
To: ulm@g.o
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] How to obsolete this python-exec news & fix the issue automatically for users
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 09:33:31
Message-Id: 20131116103222.7d4fcc2a@TOMWIJ-GENTOO
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] How to obsolete this python-exec news & fix the issue automatically for users by Ulrich Mueller
1 On Sat, 16 Nov 2013 10:11:47 +0100
2 Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > >>>>> On Fri, 15 Nov 2013, Robin H Johnson wrote:
5 >
6 > > Add this line to the dev-lang/python-exec ebuilds:
7 > > PDEPEND=">=dev-python/python-exec-10000:$SLOT"
8 >
9 > This looks wrong to me. On a newly installed system, currrently only
10 > dev-lang/python-exec:2 would be installed. Adding above PDEPEND would
11 > unnecessarily pull dev-python/python-exec:2 and
12 > dev-lang/python-exec:0.
13
14 dev-python/python-exec:2 has no files so barely takes space (just vdb).
15
16 dev-lang/python-exec:0 is 292 KiB; yeah, unnecessary, one might wonder
17 if the dev-lang/python-exec:0 dependency of dev-python/python-exec:2
18 has any use.
19
20 > And IIUC, the idea was to eventually get rid of
21 > dev-python/python-exec.
22
23 Removing the dependencies on it and masking should still work for this.
24
25 --
26 With kind regards,
27
28 Tom Wijsman (TomWij)
29 Gentoo Developer
30
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