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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item
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On 11 March 2010 01:25, William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org> wrote:
> =C2=A0If someone has a package that truly works with either python 2 or 3=
,
> =C2=A0what is the harm in automatically pulling in python 3 and installin=
g
> =C2=A0the package for both python 2 and 3?
>
> =C2=A0As long as pulling in python-3 doesn't change the system's default
> =C2=A0python interpretor I don't see a problem with having them both
> =C2=A0installed.
I've seen enough python-3 specific bugs to know it is not without
problems. It's a waste of time and resources for something that is
not ready to be used anyway. While it can be argued that that is
what our testing branch is for, it is certainly not something that
should be pushed to stable users.
Even if it would be just "dead weight", it is not something we should
wish for. It is bloat, it is unnecessary, and causes more problems
than that it solves. Why should users have to compile multiple
python versions, if they only use one anyway?
Cheers,
--=20
Ben de Groot
Gentoo Linux developer (qt, media, lxde, desktop-misc)
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