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 1NsLLG-00061d-Ni for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:25:14 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 66A12E0AA2; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:25:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from amun.cheops.ods.org (amun.cheops.ods.org [82.95.138.191]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56F0CE0A70 for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:25:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from tefnut.cheops.ods.org ([2001:888:1022:0:211:24ff:fe37:e46e] helo=gentoo.org) by amun.cheops.ods.org with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1NsLL3-0007ae-KE for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:25:02 +0100 Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:24:25 +0100 From: Fabian Groffen To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages pulling in python-3*, also they dont require it Message-ID: <20100318192424.GH13380@gentoo.org> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <4BA27CE2.7080005@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: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4BA27CE2.7080005@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (Darwin 8.11.0, VIM - Vi IMproved 7.2) Organization: Gentoo Foundation, Inc. X-Content-Scanned: by amun.cheops.ods.org (Exim Exiscan) using SpamAssassin and ClamAV X-Archives-Salt: 6e36db45-4f61-4790-87d1-35e7eff26510 X-Archives-Hash: e751d6dc32cbb59d2577f59906e633a5 On 18-03-2010 20:20:02 +0100, Thomas Sachau wrote: > There are 2 ways to fix this issue: > > -fix the dependency string for those packages (including the lines in distutils.eclass) > > or (since Arfrever claims current portage behaviour is wrong) > -change portage behaviour to be satisfied with a python slot and to not require other slots. Since the last option will take time in any case, I guess the first option is the best to achieve the desired goal: make sure Python 3 stays as far away as possible from any system that doesn't need it. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level