Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

[Joshua Saddler <nightmorph@gentoo.org>]

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On Fri, 5 Mar 2010 10:56:23 +0100
Dirkjan Ochtman <djc@gentoo.org> wrote:

> > No one has said yet why this is. So . . . direct question, gimme a direct
> > answer: why?
> 
> Because in my opinion stable means that the people who package this
> are stating that hey, we did some testing with this, it works with all
> of the other packages you have installed that want to use it.

Aaaand none of my packages that are installed "want" to use it. That's what I'm sayin'. Maybe if I ran ~arch they'd ask for Python 3.x, but I run stable, so *nothing* wants to use it. Every other stable user is in the same situation. You seem to be ignoring us, the stable users, in favor of rushing 3.x out of ~arch, like that makes some kind of perceived problem go away.

> It does
> not mean everyone should have it installed, which is what it appears
> you think it means.

Yet that's the net effect -- everyone *will* have it installed. . . unless folks start getting crafty with pseudo version ranges, as Zac mentioned.

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