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 1NsM35-0002PJ-CV for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:10:31 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3E3EEE0C2F; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:10:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f211.google.com (mail-bw0-f211.google.com [209.85.218.211]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D06FDE0941 for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:10:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz3 with SMTP id 3so2672922bwz.29 for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:10:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version :content-type; bh=lkprM0Zpw1kSKplJqHHqYARVdJpD6ErpFRjFzjGFJOs=; b=lSXf17+22OTx+i2RvafCGlyoa9Ft0wp1GJWz50zB8lPaMz2dxeq1kMJoQn+tdwRVvy 7uwHJ1g8Q5SzGLsEnQCChIovoPjYzAnS3Wnmh2jqrC8QHvEvhCuDVL3mK7ZPmXULJtSC eP8svQX8gC4lybTrRvcoBTv4mYVWkDb0So2Qs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type; b=pStiXcPKmAhTODbr4PU/BQIjS7Kd+EURNRGIZc0cFzcoxfBLCHJriCaUn650HI/R/n /ci3FYzhKaTDtNFuyaevsrmqLYJXwrSjHDZp5J/eoGv5KieIHWb9zhsl+facTfcqN7tE WitJy6WRMTX0MFRr9CeT+Nfx5a45w+VpHi/vw= Received: by 10.204.38.80 with SMTP id a16mr3497525bke.199.1268943008849; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:10:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from snowmobile ([92.24.202.169]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id a11sm1140710bkc.15.2010.03.18.13.10.08 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:10:08 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:10:00 +0000 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages pulling in python-3*, also they dont require it Message-ID: <20100318201000.24f22af0@snowmobile> In-Reply-To: <4BA286DE.7040204@gentoo.org> References: <4BA27CE2.7080005@gentoo.org> <20100318192806.48ede145@snowcone> <4BA28262.4070108@gentoo.org> <4BA286DE.7040204@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.4 (GTK+ 2.18.5; i686-pc-linux-gnu) 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; boundary="Sig_/h_R4p8pbSM4yEmn=p__VKNi"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 280888b2-eeca-4dbe-8e76-ac92c937d3b2 X-Archives-Hash: 6f2483fcf2ff1dfae134e73deb9cf647 --Sig_/h_R4p8pbSM4yEmn=p__VKNi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:02:38 +0200 Petteri R=C3=A4ty wrote: > Here's how we could change Portage behavior for pulling new slots that > are not strictly required: >=20 > - for packages in the world file install as soon as available >=20 > - for dependencies install the new slot if everything works with the > new slot >=20 > This would mean that Portage would stay with 2.6 as long as you have > something that doesn't work with 3.x installed. Why would you want the majority of your packages that can use a newer, shinier version of a library to continue using the old version? Do you really want to stick with Qt3 until every single app you have supports Qt4? --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_/h_R4p8pbSM4yEmn=p__VKNi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkuiiJsACgkQ96zL6DUtXhF3wwCgn8jMc+DHTln5H2AbyK4xCMVa 2FcAoISfAUC6DpAz1vDBu+ROyWWHlSX9 =jmyG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/h_R4p8pbSM4yEmn=p__VKNi--