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On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 10:32:50 +0200 |
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Dirkjan Ochtman <djc@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Richard Yao <ryao@g.o> wrote: |
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> >> I've always thought renaming python-3 to python3 is |
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> >> faux-namespacing, and the thing SLOTs are supposed to help out |
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> >> with. Why aren't SLOTs helping us with this? |
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> > Portage will attempt to upgrade software to a newer SLOT if it will |
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> > satisfy a dependency. This works when you cannot select versions via |
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> > eselect, but it causes problems when you can. There is no way to |
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> > tell it to prefer the selected version upgrades in other slots |
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> > unless the selected version cannot satisfy it. |
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> Your last sentence fails to parse for me, perhaps expand one of the |
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> "it"s? |
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> > I think that having to switch back would cause far less pain than |
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> > the current situation would, assuming that we ever do. If the python |
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> > developers refuse to make python 2.8, it is likely that someone |
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> > else will. |
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> Please don't hope for a 2.8, it's simply not going to happen. |
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> >> I agree that installing both is probably overkill for most users. I |
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> >> think the solution is somewhere outside the dev-lang/python |
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> >> package, though, in having the system set or portage or whatever |
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> >> the hell it is that first pulls in python prefer python-2. |
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> > This would require amending the package manager specification. |
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> Well, maybe we should explore that option. It would seem to solve a |
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> real problem that doesn't just apply to python. For example, the SLOT |
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> value could be prefixed with something to indicate that it should not |
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> be selected for upgrades automatically (i.e. other slots should be |
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> preferred). |
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[facepalm] |
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Or maybe we should explore the option of fixing python.eclass to not |
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depend on random python versions implicitly? |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |