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On Sun, Apr 14, 2019 at 8:44 AM Ralph Seichter <gentoo@××××××××.de> wrote: |
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> * Michał Górny: |
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> > I presume you want to proxy-maintain all of those packages. |
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> I would want to maintain the "monty" application because it offers |
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> functionality useful to me. I'm not particularly keen on maintaining |
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> Python ebuilds required as dependencies by only one application. |
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Speaking on behalf of the python team, we are not particularly keen on |
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maintaining libraries that are only used by a single package. We have |
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too many packages to care for already. |
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> Like everybody else, I have only a finite amount of time I can spend on |
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> Gentoo packages. I usually start with a separate venv for Python apps so |
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> I can "pip install ..." and make do without ebuilds. |
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This is actually the approach I would suggest for most applications. |
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Not everything needs to be handled in an ebuild; often it just |
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increases the amount of busy work you end up doing. |
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