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From: Harald van =?utf-8?Q?D=C4=B3k?= <truedfx@gentoo.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Actions of python team, especially Arfrever wrt
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On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 05:49:08PM +0200, Thomas Sachau wrote:
> If any package does inherit python or distutils eclass, then those eclasses do pull in
> "dev-lang/python", which is unversioned, so it will always pull in the latest version, in this case
> python-3*. You could change this, so it allows any major installed slot to satisfy the python
> dependency.

A dependency on dev-lang/python *is* satisfied by any slot, any version. You've
been told so already, if I recall correctly.