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 1NsYZ1-0007SO-Oj for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:32:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5BBCBE0B75; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:32:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2827E0A5F for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:32:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from afta-gentoo.localnet (ip-85-198-235-97.broker.com.pl [85.198.235.97]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C65767BC6 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:32:13 +0000 (UTC) From: Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis To: Gentoo Development Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages pulling in python-3*, also they dont require it Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:35:47 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.1 (Linux/2.6.32-tuxonice-r5-AFTA; KDE/4.4.1; x86_64; ; ) References: <4BA27CE2.7080005@gentoo.org> <20100319085751.1c7f5dca@snowmobile> <4BA34293.1040302@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4BA34293.1040302@gmail.com> 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; boundary="nextPart4333564.ODILvjgdIh"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201003191036.18142.Arfrever@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 507dd963-12e9-4f58-a2a3-93482ad3f23e X-Archives-Hash: 2bc6b4f09b392e2cbaf2da7f281abf65 --nextPart4333564.ODILvjgdIh Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 2010-03-19 10:23:31 Dale napisa=C5=82(a): > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:54:28 -0500 > > Dale wrote: > > =20 > >> Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > >> =20 > >>> On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:17:17 +0100 > >>> Ben de Groot wrote: > >>> > >>> =20 > >>>> Because it is extremely useless to the great majority of users. > >>>> > >>>> =20 > >>> Most packages in the tree are useless to the great majority of > >>> users. > >>> =20 > >> Which is why most users don't install everything. I have about 1000 > >> packages installed here. The packages installed are either something > >> I use or a dependency of something I use. What exactly is this being > >> installed for again? If nothing depends on it, there is no need to > >> have it. > >> =20 > > 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 >=20 > OK. Right now, as you type this, what package depends on python-3 and=20 > won't work with python-2? Anything at all? If it is nothing, then why=20 > install it? >=20 > Since python-3 is not what the system is using, it's not getting used=20 > even if it is installed. So as I mentioned in another reply, portage is= =20 > installing something and it is just sitting there doing nothing. What=20 > is the point in that? I can add "python2" USE flag (enabled by default) to some versions of dev-lang/python. With USE=3D"-python2", Python 2 will not be required and Python 3 will be set as main active version of Python. =2D-=20 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis --nextPart4333564.ODILvjgdIh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAABAgAGBQJLo0WRAAoJEFtpjAED8H0YVwAP/0kOx2enszd2FlRnGHztLdJQ wzn9tuyVDXN3P01nvDeVUYuhSQWDLpeY7CEuWfgGsPMlQIXmrb1O1/tNCCV0WqDd Q8HtxcYywfb/JgjfzqqndGbyB+NdMfzNIZPBfP9Cb8DjpBEp7qLGBTDjthBlZAh5 IwoBJ+REhk0IRoUQCYOwDAl2508tpYXpFFLDC6BfUSJ5+JGHff41LoctqRbrLSzh 5u4U6/Findoi1MO1rMZQZn+ME1aZ2Wg9Ro4OGy+7Py1jFxwjTpPog1SmqxHvA47a qqIRBwD974ry2/0Xo6GP08ZoFCN+ZAC3+ipiuWrRtrZqDL0WM7TJayMfm/D+utBR 18YRBjrCkzFz08tLDfAkmM6EUqpKVH1W5Ep0b5DCag2fA75hdNbsqxM3VY71pqL3 1pm+Xql2XGvlw3t2JrBAtN4s9F+R9IqnLX1xGgHYFCAlY16uk6VtYxlXSkO2/Ah4 ljYU7N6gFzzjIuzVECMBurDqt2xn3YdY6XA1tOOAarUM24ozZLFMNjIsgBgaa3HE DvQG+dkD5geTSwOJf7O6oI6ZgPn2XHbA/If9ji56B8NKEtBCAb/it5bfYvYZGuaT EwhvJiLc+NUBm68Xzb36n9xRrO90A7JK3/seJ+UeateZXGNR/4htWvbmEeZe5fTZ t5GWLQytc/sxmTgjyGIb =aCTz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart4333564.ODILvjgdIh--