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 1NpWDV-0000Ci-9P for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:25:33 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B65D8E0996; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:25:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f204.google.com (mail-yx0-f204.google.com [209.85.210.204]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5CC6E0DF0 for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:25:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxe42 with SMTP id 42so2308770yxe.2 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:25:20 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:sender:received:date:from:to :subject:message-id:mail-followup-to:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=kGTYcAK3KbKS98jLhW9qVcREPDQs23hcNwW/T5a+59s=; b=KTnKwu1ze9YLaPG3fSK0QTp2MW/XsiFtJ917IE1XDb88bsrGGcy8GYyDMy18Q1UyH/ iI6ylZdpvSywwfOof/5J025RAt6RFctZKOfazAfx6dJ45OmW7l1Ug36d84wFAj8YByNA PccYPNnQWR/KlutlQxums0OQIymDrNXd82M5s= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:date:from:to:subject:message-id:mail-followup-to:references :mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to :user-agent; b=jT2HNAuklsWEIZnhCS9GbQmg2KTGVj84TejxLmz/35uuSArDAeStOFZ0/nx1lWlyjM UUEIBIpgM+bC/07vZMcw7k/V1igLOp44VQyIuAy5utjmpuuv92N6q2aWAZnW5gwblJ8r WUqCAgNUkHl9GJznSJhKgptuU4l0aniBz6YdU= Received: by 10.100.24.27 with SMTP id 27mr1425390anx.124.1268267118650; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:25:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from linux1 (cpe-76-183-49-63.tx.res.rr.com [76.183.49.63]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 15sm5477033gxk.6.2010.03.10.16.25.15 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:25:17 -0800 (PST) Sender: William Hubbs Received: by linux1 (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:25:14 -0600 Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:25:14 -0600 From: William Hubbs To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item Message-ID: <20100311002514.GA19387@linux1> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <201003041923.17749.Arfrever@gentoo.org> <4B919F98.2090208@gentoo.org> <20100308212816.GA1309@linux1> <201003101837.02887.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: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="W/nzBZO5zC0uMSeA" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Archives-Salt: ea3afe8d-a67d-4717-b825-addc77a20d91 X-Archives-Hash: 5f08c82d58d412fe724b665e3f759ff2 --W/nzBZO5zC0uMSeA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:43:04PM +0100, Ben de Groot wrote: > On 10 March 2010 18:36, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis > wrote: > > Almost everybody has at least 1 package installed which supports both P= ython 2 > > and Python 3 and depends on dev-lang/python without version specificati= on, > > so Python 3 would be pulled into dependency graph, >=20 > The problem is that we want to prevent that from happening. > Or at the very least advise our users that they should mask > python-3* unless they want it to be pulled in. =20 If someone has a package that truly works with either python 2 or 3, what is the harm in automatically pulling in python 3 and installing the package for both python 2 and 3? As long as pulling in python-3 doesn't change the system's default python interpretor I don't see a problem with having them both installed. William --W/nzBZO5zC0uMSeA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkuYOGoACgkQblQW9DDEZTjfJwCgo0eg+XJLHvTid6uiVBvkUP6t bGsAn2d5M9suDB1vXf+IZq73Z86y+1Xr =X8AM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --W/nzBZO5zC0uMSeA--