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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item
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On 24 March 2010 19:41, Richard Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 03/24/2010 02:28 PM, Joshua Saddler wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:04:51 +0100 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar
>> Arahesis<Arfrever@gentoo.org> =C2=A0wrote:
>>>
>>> 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? =C2=A0Do us=
ers 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
Did you even read the whole thread? And the other one named
"Packages pulling in python-3*, also they dont require it"?
--=20
Ben de Groot
Gentoo Linux Qt project lead developer