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 1NuVWn-0002YC-VG for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:42:06 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F1D6EE090B; Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:42:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vms173013pub.verizon.net (vms173013pub.verizon.net [206.46.173.13]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AED45E0882 for ; Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:41:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gw.thefreemanclan.net ([unknown] [96.245.231.248]) by vms173013.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.02 32bit (built Apr 16 2009)) with ESMTPA id <0KZS00EEVUOU2BI0@vms173013.mailsrvcs.net> for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 24 Mar 2010 13:43:54 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [192.168.0.5] (rich.homedns.org [192.168.0.5]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by gw.thefreemanclan.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 55A8B1759F42 for ; Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:41:29 -0400 (EDT) Message-id: <4BAA5CD8.4080701@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:41:28 -0400 From: Richard Freeman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100306 Thunderbird/3.0.3 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] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item References: <201003041923.17749.Arfrever@gentoo.org> <4BAA5134.4000900@gentoo.org> <201003241904.52118.Arfrever@gentoo.org> <20100324112832.5010c6c4@angelstorm> In-reply-to: <20100324112832.5010c6c4@angelstorm> Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 6a8b53bf-8bf3-4e2a-9585-87579de5f019 X-Archives-Hash: ef06093215f0780625e5794621aa3059 On 03/24/2010 02:28 PM, Joshua Saddler wrote: > On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:04:51 +0100 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar > Arahesis wrote: >> People, don't want Python 3, probably have already masked it. There >> is no reason to waste Council's time for decision on what sentence >> should be included in the news item. > > Not the folks running the stable tree, because they don't know about > it. They're not following the discussion here on -dev. They're going > to get unpleasantly surprised when it shows up in their next world > update. > > Include instructions on how to mask it if desired in the news item. Will not masking python-3 cause anything to break in any way? Do users need to do anything to make python-2.6 or whatever the default interpreter (instructions for using eselect python are not given in the news item)? If the only potential issue is that users might have a few extra files installed that they don't need but which won't cause them problems, then I don't know that we need to instruct users to create masks. If having python-3 will cause stable users problems, then we probably shouldn't be stabilizing it anyway. Compared to the KDE 3->4 migration this is probably going to be a fairly minor issue for most stable users, unless we're expecting breakage. Rich