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 1NsYXc-0007AJ-D9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:30:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 89AABE0B2F; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:30:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f219.google.com (mail-bw0-f219.google.com [209.85.218.219]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31E12E0AD2 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:30:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz19 with SMTP id 19so3000318bwz.26 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:30:43 -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=yR3pmjK9l4IBi9LwKxKFn+GN8iN+nrltrv5JdiZouSE=; b=n88A6BRpm4VP6Zrhtcqf6Bti+uVLZfc6A2/MpsSnUz3lNIrB2T9409hzEPRQvndYSp eX7um/CfsGjt+VtzTnbEm6XL2Z+VjRk7WzQsWqQ6e2tFKXVkNSok6odvQ4+iss6ODUa/ 4jvRY9r5sjO6QKDO/NUmufugxUfDb4a4/GC1o= 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=ZTDsqo0Y92eanjk3RLAI0nI5ICJ175H5uU+MzxWDl2ZP9czbeBvpiQ6QgG5Vy1tP7C OOUnLRTAJtkXxVdbZJnuWWudUEn5r9QW4T0RxWu7QIU1eZ1JFAYsCpXOOdelHTVxn678 qIVEE06gEDd/27kz/yQITUX2luGheOnxVOZn0= Received: by 10.204.139.207 with SMTP id f15mr2802657bku.196.1268991043460; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:30:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from snowmobile ([78.144.69.26]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id l1sm3787954bkl.2.2010.03.19.02.30.42 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:30:43 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:30:33 +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: <20100319093033.16437529@snowmobile> In-Reply-To: <4BA34293.1040302@gmail.com> References: <4BA27CE2.7080005@gentoo.org> <20100318192424.GH13380@gentoo.org> <20100318215331.59ad6253@notorcomp.notorgroup.local> <20100319081207.22282ba9@snowmobile> <4BA33BC4.10502@gmail.com> <20100319085751.1c7f5dca@snowmobile> <4BA34293.1040302@gmail.com> 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_/c8onm5B/mz3d/3u.rN3_xNj"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: cb60dccc-12d6-41b2-b713-1d4736309a36 X-Archives-Hash: de9ce5424f6facb7b27687aea9f6e8f6 --Sig_/c8onm5B/mz3d/3u.rN3_xNj Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:23:31 -0500 Dale wrote: > > It's being installed because it's a dependency of something you use. > > > > Replace Python with any other library and we wouldn't be having this > > discussion. >=20 > OK. Right now, as you type this, what package depends on python-3 > and won't work with python-2? Anything at all? If it is nothing, > then why install it? And that's where you're making the mistake: you're treating Python as being different from every other package. In every other case, you want things to be using the newest version of a slotted package where possible. Why aren't you complaining that you were forced to install gcc 4.3 and 4.1 when 3.4 worked just fine? --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_/c8onm5B/mz3d/3u.rN3_xNj Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkujRDwACgkQ96zL6DUtXhFDDgCfQ3Uf3PL1/IPtY2YNkFRa1WbK cnYAn0Es8fcG2PT/f2d3S/+iR/6y8OSU =1dUn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/c8onm5B/mz3d/3u.rN3_xNj--