Re: [gentoo-python] Python 3 in Gentoo

[Dirkjan Ochtman]

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o> wrote:
>> I guess I still think it should be possible to give Portage a hint not
>> to install a new SLOT if the old SLOT is okay.
>
> In this case, I think we would need something more subtle than that;
> most users would want a hypothetical python-2.8 to be installed, and
> python-3 users will certainly want to be upgraded to python-3.3 when
> that lands.
>
> In other words, if we tell portage not to upgrade to a new slot
> automatically, that means users would have to manually install each
> major release of python.

No, I was going for the kind of effect where being inclusive wrt the
new major Python version would be controlled in a single place. I.e.
in the ebuild or in an eclass or some such.

So you'd have SLOT="~3" in the python-3* ebuilds, and Portage would
know to not install SLOT=3 unless requested explicitly, and at some
point we'd remove the '~'.

Cheers,

Dirkjan