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 1NU62P-0008TD-6g for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 10 Jan 2010 22:13:33 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D3345E08FE for ; Sun, 10 Jan 2010 22:13:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from amun.cheops.ods.org (amun.cheops.ods.org [82.95.138.191]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66CC3E087C for ; Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:56:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from tefnut.cheops.ods.org ([2001:888:1022:0:211:24ff:fe37:e46e] helo=gentoo.org) by amun.cheops.ods.org with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1NU4pN-00028Q-V0 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:56:02 +0100 Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:56:01 +0100 From: Fabian Groffen To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] PYTHON_DEPEND - Suggested replacement for NEED_PYTHON Message-ID: <20100110205601.GY832@gentoo.org> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <201001100930.20355.Arfrever@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-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201001100930.20355.Arfrever@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (Darwin 8.11.0, VIM - Vi IMproved 7.2) Organization: Gentoo Foundation, Inc. X-Content-Scanned: by amun.cheops.ods.org (Exim Exiscan) using SpamAssassin and ClamAV X-Archives-Salt: 4e0bb94c-8ba8-4fbe-be2d-077dab37311e X-Archives-Hash: 202979e44f0b3feb573a2583a38c80d5 On 10-01-2010 09:29:28 +0100, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: > I would like to suggest introduction of support for PYTHON_DEPEND variable, which > would be a better replacement for NEED_PYTHON variable. NEED_PYTHON variable > does not allow to specify that e.g. only versions of Python 2 are accepted. > (Eventually PYTHON_DEPEND variable will have to be set only in ebuilds of packages > not supporting installation for multiple versions of Python.) Can you explain the intended use of this variable, and why normal DEPEND is not sufficient? -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level