Re: [gentoo-dev] PYTHON_DEPEND - Suggested replacement for NEED_PYTHON

[Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <Arfrever@gentoo.org>]

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2010-01-11 11:14:11 Maciej Mrozowski napisał(a):
> On Monday 11 of January 2010 01:25:45 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis 
> wrote:
> > 2010-01-10 21:56:01 Fabian Groffen napisał(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
> > > > 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?
> > 
> > PYTHON_DEPEND is intented to simplify specification of dependency on
> > Python.
> > 
> > PYTHON_DEPEND="2:2.5" is shorter than:
> > DEPEND="|| ( =dev-lang/python-2.7* =dev-lang/python-2.6*
> > =dev-lang/python-2.5* )"
> 
> Doesn't that accidentally mean that dev-lang/python is improperly slotted and 
> all 2.x releases should be slotted with :2?

dev-lang/python is properly slotted.

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Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis

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