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 1NU9ii-00018Z-NF for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 11 Jan 2010 02:09:31 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4D2E4E09A9 for ; Mon, 11 Jan 2010 02:09:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E209EE0B3D for ; Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:23:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from afta-gentoo.localnet (ip-85-198-235-97.broker.com.pl [85.198.235.97]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5866B1B4057 for ; Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:23:18 +0000 (UTC) From: Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis To: Gentoo Development Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] PYTHON_DEPEND - Suggested replacement for NEED_PYTHON Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 01:25:45 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.4 (Linux/2.6.32-tuxonice-AFTA; KDE/4.3.4; x86_64; ; ) References: <201001100930.20355.Arfrever@gentoo.org> <20100110205601.GY832@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <20100110205601.GY832@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: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1891323.z7pl1mPsZ9"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201001110126.25811.Arfrever@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: f579b7bb-23bc-485f-a6db-bcf01aa5e33c X-Archives-Hash: 72553ba3c6c48d3474ddca9847d35dee --nextPart1891323.z7pl1mPsZ9 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 2010-01-10 21:56:01 Fabian Groffen napisa=C5=82(a): > On 10-01-2010 09:29:28 +0100, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: > > I would like to suggest introduction of support for PYTHON_DEPEND varia= ble, which > > would be a better replacement for NEED_PYTHON variable. NEED_PYTHON var= iable > > does not allow to specify that e.g. only versions of Python 2 are accep= ted. > > (Eventually PYTHON_DEPEND variable will have to be set only in ebuilds = of packages > > not supporting installation for multiple versions of Python.) >=20 > Can you explain the intended use of this variable, and why normal DEPEND > is not sufficient? PYTHON_DEPEND is intented to simplify specification of dependency on Python. PYTHON_DEPEND=3D"2:2.5" is shorter than: DEPEND=3D"|| ( =3Ddev-lang/python-2.7* =3Ddev-lang/python-2.6* =3Ddev-lang/= python-2.5* )" =2D-=20 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis --nextPart1891323.z7pl1mPsZ9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAABAgAGBQJLSnAxAAoJEFtpjAED8H0YOxQQAKMEwVwGA/kqdhGecObc5+5M iBa7oFh5AQ0BrtVYBbBP4WMN8deE80OGv3fHps5ytW6CgyRNFrxTh6fotA32rsTr fXnSIYzVfjnZ/2eDLupXW4UocxYklKTx8CwwlrkyPi1BNbRJOLDMhpRZkvqkQ3X0 eqLNk9eMqm8E6w7qTOKcuYl7gdgPTVYN+4QVXTIy2ep8tuULFliZHNOdRYTWq3/z plupLOwOmcsURxMSMdWcOGe0WfkuAIbi6kiL1gEsuaSWVHuQ2Up29Rpnjnn+3Ez6 /A51aFS4682VtdX+DYoSLWKbyEXoqXLCEwYF9OWfrFJBZoRZXZzZA8ZRh04rb7Ke hQGpz7v5RV5nCVVunh85uJuszfIdedJdVYy5pwRjFkJny9g6iimKOpR+6VJibdhA Eoifx6+WZ6V4zWkq51HigoDLds3uB5fZjU/i0Giz3PGwr/+kbSjfhZVPyj88nq4/ LEgMR+CdGzFnho+RULOYlwJ5ioQ4SJL98Co5E4ZDMvdrAWJV7dixTRUOqLNNrOhU E+SMMDIrhsXMAFkNz4DMS4lk/f+6+nlAkSbxPvy5U/7SglFJXid9xUPFUrLtJ8F6 +ekf7EOd5GG9vNQTU057q7BdGbyfrVSwpfVMs3jz2trtsWAcFc1JFmnjaYa0PErO bGJmdnDyGk/9ZwHO7iXz =6ibl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1891323.z7pl1mPsZ9--