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 1NsvLv-00049k-Bf for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:52:19 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AD83FE07E6; Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:52:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.gama-solutions.de (static.195.122.47.78.clients.your-server.de [78.47.122.195]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92CDEE07DF for ; Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:51:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.8.4] (88-134-121-227-dynip.superkabel.de [88.134.121.227]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.gama-solutions.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EB18638C145 for ; Sat, 20 Mar 2010 11:02:18 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4BA49BD6.7010507@jmhengen.net> Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 10:56:38 +0100 From: Jean-Marc Hengen User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20100215) 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages pulling in python-3*, also they dont require it 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> <20100319093033.16437529@snowmobile> <4BA34E5C.7040800@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 044a6858-28db-4573-86a9-13a3fcf171fc X-Archives-Hash: 3c6a2f7f98d3a19f2ba97f43624ed14e Duncan wrote: > ... ++ - I can only add the saying "With freedom comes great responsibility.". Maybe the python herd could maintain a little status page which covers informations like: - Estimated python 3 compatibility in respect to the packages in the main tree. - Recommendations if installing makes sense or not (e.g. package X gains feature Y with python 3). - Recommendations if setting python 3 as system engine makes already sense or not. This way gentoo can give its users the tools needed to make a good decision if python 3 makes sense on his system. For me as a user I need more time to study if an action makes sense than implementing said action (e.g. locally masking python 3 - It would not be the first time masking a package). If one isn't into python, it gets even more complicated. J_M