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 1NsMJz-0006BY-L9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:27:59 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 456CDE0C29; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:27:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.152]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4746AE0C1D for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:27:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id d23so92950fga.10 for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:27:50 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=W/shj4kG5mztB4DDZkM2lH2GjHUpgfFA4BiVTseg074=; b=wrD+glU/hE5W0YQonv7UY8BUSK1mP+3fyXMMpeeExdyTq7dHFS5nLR5N1rqYeN/7st j2AutoCn3ZED9UEhjZn+WbQV/RqXTi+jyWCB6gRU7Cm1ClSXgVQIrjqFMOlBMcH7oACh Pohvip9K4WP1K9GPTn2Q4LOgI2Jh1ehY333/w= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=BNZZOjfUnNhwaEZIej3sqjAxSjvXwq1rlTM/7xsDOi8RNNdxCzqAzzKi5ZUdY0f7MU KQ6jIwyoTrK1Zqz7XgliRp5S3N7PugnBplG5lgGudXPEfrgEifNfR6U/aR5TD1FlTY1M iskjY02TrS6z2TzHE4OS9Ufs1aVFAraI2ZTzg= 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 Sender: yngwin.gentoo@gmail.com Received: by 10.239.135.16 with SMTP id b16mr463947hbb.204.1268944070523; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:27:50 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20100318192424.GH13380@gentoo.org> References: <4BA27CE2.7080005@gentoo.org> <20100318192424.GH13380@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:27:50 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 50a29dc76fe6a83f Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages pulling in python-3*, also they dont require it From: Ben de Groot To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: a490d403-cd5e-420b-9b79-bceaecb576ee X-Archives-Hash: 3ea3bb030f97c5bff86cb4a3e5b8d33e On 18 March 2010 20:24, Fabian Groffen wrote: > On 18-03-2010 20:20:02 +0100, Thomas Sachau wrote: >> There are 2 ways to fix this issue: >> >> -fix the dependency string for those packages (including the lines in distutils.eclass) >> >> or (since Arfrever claims current portage behaviour is wrong) >> -change portage behaviour to be satisfied with a python slot and to not require other slots. > > Since the last option will take time in any case, I guess the first > option is the best to achieve the desired goal: make sure Python 3 stays > as far away as possible from any system that doesn't need it. And the best way to do that is to package.mask it. Cheers, -- Ben de Groot Gentoo Linux Qt project lead developer