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On 09/30/2012 07:12 AM, Fabian Groffen wrote: |
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> Back then, we found it hurt us (Bad marshalling data) when using |
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> binpkgs. Not sure if it still does today with Python 2.7. Somehow we |
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> reached a consensus with the Python maintainer at that time that cache |
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> stuff shouldn't be in VDB, also because it depends on system and perhaps |
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> Python version. Since embedded systems might not even want it (it's |
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> just cache afterall, wasting their sometimes precious disk space), it |
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> had to be out of the package contents for them as well. |
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They can use INSTALL_MASK="*.py[co]" if they need to. In portage we have |
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a default COLLISION_IGNORE="*.py[co]" setting, so that there are no |
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related issues with file collisions for *.py[co] if the user removes the |
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INSTALL_MASK setting later. |
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Thanks, |
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Zac |
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