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 1NUhPb-0006w1-B5 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:08:05 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C5483E07AB; Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:07:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97199E07AB for ; Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:07:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from afta-gentoo.localnet (bios15.biol.us.edu.pl [155.158.245.185]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F380F67FE1 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:07:49 +0000 (UTC) From: Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis To: Gentoo Development Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] PYTHON_DEPEND - Suggested replacement for NEED_PYTHON Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:11:14 +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> <201001110126.25811.Arfrever@gentoo.org> <201001111114.11938.reavertm@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201001111114.11938.reavertm@gmail.com> 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="nextPart5962557.A2gp9eKxIN"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201001121511.15095.Arfrever@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 7a674d4a-db85-406a-a318-2f1bfc6ed6dc X-Archives-Hash: 49c57efeb69f2d14359183eb2d8a13ff --nextPart5962557.A2gp9eKxIN Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="windows-1250" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 2010-01-11 11:14:11 Maciej Mrozowski napisa=B3(a): > On Monday 11 of January 2010 01:25:45 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis= =20 > wrote: > > 2010-01-10 21:56:01 Fabian Groffen napisa=B3(a): > > > On 10-01-2010 09:29:28 +0100, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wro= te: > > > > 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.) > > >=20 > > > Can you explain the intended use of this variable, and why normal DEP= END > > > is not sufficient? > >=20 > > PYTHON_DEPEND is intented to simplify specification of dependency on > > Python. > >=20 > > 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* )" >=20 > Doesn't that accidentally mean that dev-lang/python is improperly slotted= and=20 > all 2.x releases should be slotted with :2? dev-lang/python is properly slotted. =2D-=20 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis --nextPart5962557.A2gp9eKxIN 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) iQIcBAABAgAGBQJLTIMDAAoJEFtpjAED8H0YKc0P/R6es8YxEbxPTk2AFK+vY5h4 bkAckOeoIgd5+C8Y4OTEpVADrVb8ewB2d12J97W9oLXeJuLnY3g+W4Ba3SJcHrDH xPEOeSk5lEF1SPytUzmX08o0fC4RDYddB5rmLTi6rjWE2MImqGCM3jcILQdQJwo+ AHGiiJS+EZY1niP7XCPcntAm60j/g9m64sUKtcs6l7REo6U0zYr4s9jFpZebOaya wn31Tma9u6THBQy+I9EcqJTEcXcx25jZ8rxqUMF3AsW8xaKPQy7shBUQGHA+quyM fxH0CjsdAM5z5T7xogsSYQOf2hanXJpkXf0h+2Ol69O1rq1g39mu0MsFFhLm1siQ erb3orag1rPeb2dbRU9CKORkL4yCEehw4vhhIoiT4k1Vl7yfe/0tXZ2i371TNwST CLgfbTYbBOnIIVyy7nFYAF1suZWA36UEtxDjiMP49WjQ6L0L/1evrAiyuMu4duGj wjKU2ebzGkDTdTnRZa/GRCkldOgY8uFONcj6UZiJp3bBhoKJvDwpnnXQWTusUqw8 uM4t4Qlo5byoTnLZYID/CjdTvxkeI3n44s2GoB1nMdbEkn/WNSp+ON9IQ5no0dY6 nRWIte7vKGjxdkSVcUN4JDpqaeqTq4zTy74D0IpjdFyQOUKebaDE315rtC+ZsGo4 HtMJiJYeM+pq8fgEiRmr =24yM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart5962557.A2gp9eKxIN--