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 1OLFBP-0001fB-HX for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 06 Jun 2010 12:42:31 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 46EDFE0C01; Sun, 6 Jun 2010 12:42:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02E4CE0B9F for ; Sun, 6 Jun 2010 12:41:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.178.22] (p4FDF0F01.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [79.223.15.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A65691B4098 for ; Sun, 6 Jun 2010 12:41:47 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4C0B9787.2080209@gentoo.org> Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2010 14:41:43 +0200 From: Thomas Sachau 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] Actions of python team, especially Arfrever wrt python eclass and python-3* References: <4BFE82C3.2050400@gentoo.org> <201006051644.20150.Arfrever@gentoo.org> <4C0A720C.20300@gentoo.org> <20100605183154.GA19296@boostbox> <4C0AD7EC.2010700@gentoo.org> <20100605233806.GA17168@boostbox> <4C0B017B.40907@gentoo.org> <87r5kkacr9.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> <4C0B7B1C.3000009@gentoo.org> <4C0B8204.8090101@gentoo.org> <4C0B888B.5050909@gentoo.org> <1275825024.4662.17.camel@oblak.fubar.si> In-Reply-To: <1275825024.4662.17.camel@oblak.fubar.si> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 OpenPGP: id=211CA2D4 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigAB30A4FAE526754A888D59D2" X-Archives-Salt: e75589dc-c119-4eda-bb82-bdc8e6381ee7 X-Archives-Hash: 30bafeea9ee2d679644e73d40e6b3c7a This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigAB30A4FAE526754A888D59D2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Am 06.06.2010 13:50, schrieb Domen Ko=C5=BEar: >> And if you add a python slot or remove one, portage currently is not a= ble to see that and to >> reinstall packages, which had modules installed for that slot. You nee= d another tool >> (python-updater) to check that and to call the needed reinstalls. >=20 > I agree with this fact, user should not be required to read additional > documenation for portage to function as wanted.=20 >=20 > I'm very unfamiliar with inner workings of portage, but using > python-updater implementation, USE_PYTHON behaviour shouldn't be that > hard to implement? You want some additional switch to portage, which does the work of python= -updater? That would just move the code, but would still have the same limitations. What does speak= against explicit user control for optional features/slots, including dependency handling by the= package manager like in my proposal? --=20 Thomas Sachau Gentoo Linux Developer --------------enigAB30A4FAE526754A888D59D2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (GNU/Linux) iJwEAQEKAAYFAkwLl4wACgkQG7kqcTWJkGc8swP/Y7Wzeh+EU1KMdKa7QiWDhOUe gOwmd0bFB/qndENjS22wjNmVyLUVsQ9ji69cUaWN1CfhfYrOeNvltbsl5xk1w7Zk IA2qW10Qq3TQAFuWsJC38WXk6FRRUWJFqOnfRI/mNk0/UjCdn+TrahiDbfX/H8o1 IdarXU2NjulaOCLyepc= =OAyB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigAB30A4FAE526754A888D59D2--