Re: [gentoo-python] Python 3 in Gentoo

[Jesus Rivero (Neurogeek)]

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On Aug 8, 2012 5:44 PM, "Thomas Sachau" <tommy@g.o> wrote:

> Mike Gilbert schrieb:
> > On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
> wrote:
> >> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
> wrote:
> >>>> So do you know how many ebuilds we'd have to update to get it right?
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> At the moment, no. If someone could help me write a script to identify
> >>> affected packages, that would be great.
> >>>
> >>> If said script uses the portage api to determine the dependency tree,
> >>> we will want to modify python.eclass first to reduce the number of
> >>> hits. This could be done in a local copy of the tree.
> >>
> >> I've created a quick little script and posted it in my devspace. Now I
> >> just need to mess with python.eclass.
> >>
> >> http://dev.gentoo.org/~floppym/python-deps.py
> >
> > After modifying python.eclass, distutils.eclass, java-ant-2.eclass,
> > and waf-utils.eclass, there are 532 dependencies that would need to be
> > modified to make the || dep plan work. I have attached the list for
> > reference.
> >
> > Does this seem like a viable option? Is anyone going to volunteer to
> > take it from here?
> >
>
> If everyone agrees with this route, i suggest a post to the gentoo-dev
> mailing list about this planned change and a request for maintainers to
> change their dependencies accordingly.
> Additionally i suggest to add it also to some written doc, e.g. the
> python developer guide.
> After giving maintainers some time for that change, we could then open
> bugs or do the remaining needed conversions (when the maintainer is
> missing or gives his ok).
>
>
> --
>
> Thomas Sachau
> Gentoo Linux Developer
>
>