From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NsyD5-0005TM-Og for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:55:23 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 07A68E07EE; Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:55:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4C20E07BA for ; Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:55:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68D8A1B4004 for ; Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:55:19 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.838 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.838 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.239, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id GieWPEtV6AjY for ; Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:55:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDE7B1B403E for ; Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:55:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NsyCl-000149-67 for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Sat, 20 Mar 2010 13:55:03 +0100 Received: from cust-95-80-45-96.csbnet.se ([95.80.45.96]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 20 Mar 2010 13:55:03 +0100 Received: from xake by cust-95-80-45-96.csbnet.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 20 Mar 2010 13:55:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Peter Hjalmarsson Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages pulling in python-3*, also they dont require it Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 13:51:37 +0100 Message-ID: <1269089497.15822.10.camel@lillen> References: <4BA27CE2.7080005@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cust-95-80-45-96.csbnet.se In-Reply-To: <4BA27CE2.7080005@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Evolution 2.29.92.1 X-Archives-Salt: 65615caf-9cf6-406d-9dee-0d4d26b6254e X-Archives-Hash: 812284a197dfcfd65094a7163c7c8549 I have a question related to this: If I have package X which supports python2 and python 3, and I install it without python3 installed it will only install python2-files (i.e. /usr/lib/python2.x/*), right? What happens if I later install packages Y that is only python3, and relies on the python3 parts of package X? Can this happen and how will the PM handle that (reemerge package X installing the python3 parts or fail to compile package Y due to missing python module)?