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From: Bruce Hill <daddy@×××××××××××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] did python-r1 improve user experience?
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 02:22:20
Message-Id: 20131027022208.GF4700@server
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] did python-r1 improve user experience? by Walter Dnes
1 On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 10:18:11PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
2 > On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 09:30:57PM -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote
3 >
4 > > The (non-)relationship between eselect python and PYTHON_TARGETS is
5 > > something that would be nice to resolve, but I don't know how to do
6 > > it. PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET will probably cause problems if/when packages
7 > > start supporting python3 only.
8 >
9 > What I find interesting/annoying is that my make.conf has to have 3
10 > lines...
11 >
12 > PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7"
13 > PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7"
14 > USE_PYTHON="2.7"
15 >
16 > ...as if it didn't hear me the first time. How difficult would it be to
17 > set up an eclass to tell portage that...
18 >
19 > if PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="pythonX_Y"
20 >
21 > PYTHON_TARGETS defaults to "${PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET}"
22 >
23 > USE_PYTHON defaults to "${PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET/_/.}"
24 >
25 > Over-ride the default if explicitly listed. Out of sheer curiousity,
26 > what circumstances are there where ordinary users would need differing
27 > values for these 3 items?
28
29 Mine only have PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7" and I unmerge python3 immediately
30 after install.
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