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From: Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o>
To: gentoo-python@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-python] Reducing exceptionality cases for PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 18:47:22
Message-Id: 5451363C.8030407@gentoo.org
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4 On 29/10/14 02:42 PM, W. Trevor King wrote:
5 > On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 02:33:47PM -0400, Ian Stakenvicius wrote:
6 >> On 29/10/14 02:25 PM, W. Trevor King wrote:
7 >>> Personally, I'd prefer to stick with my existing
8 >>> PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET. If a package doesn't like that, I can
9 >>> think harder about whether or not I actually need the package.
10 >>> My Docker images [1], for example, are single-Python
11 >>> implementations and I don't want to pull in another Python
12 >>> accidentally.
13 >>
14 >> This change will not pull in extra python versions, it just
15 >> changes the python-single-r1 inheriting ebuilds so that they rely
16 >> on the values set in PYTHON_TARGETS for resolution, instead of
17 >> PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET.
18 >
19 > Ah, so it's “feel free to ignore my PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET”, not
20 > “feel free to ignore my PYTHON_TARGETS.”
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23 Correct. Apologies for not making that clearer in my original post.
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26 > ... That works for me, since I don't care what version of Python a
27 > single-implementation package is installed with (as long as it's in
28 > my PYTHON_TARGETS and any dependers are satisfied).
29 >
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