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 1NuUUz-0004L4-Qe for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:36:10 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 47135E0903; Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:36:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f182.google.com (mail-yw0-f182.google.com [209.85.211.182]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC102E0774 for ; Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:36:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh12 with SMTP id 12so3757771ywh.32 for ; Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:36:03 -0700 (PDT) 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: antarus@scriptkitty.com Received: by 10.100.19.4 with SMTP id 4mr5155902ans.41.1269452163357; Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:36:03 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20100324103237.0b534fd0@angelstorm> References: <201003041923.17749.Arfrever@gentoo.org> <201003241744.31105.Arfrever@gentoo.org> <20100324095735.1bba94a2@angelstorm> <201003241814.45606.Arfrever@gentoo.org> <20100324103237.0b534fd0@angelstorm> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:36:03 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 74c26a16cf65b895 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item From: Alec Warner To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: a4cf8f25-48d3-4963-b88a-ae79e0efa4c8 X-Archives-Hash: 14a6dee82fa171a09f9bb3e0b601021e On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Joshua Saddler wr= ote: > On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:14:44 +0100 > Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: > >> 2010-03-24 17:57:35 Joshua Saddler napisa=C5=82(a): >> > On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:43:56 +0100 >> > Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: >> > > Python maintainers do not recommend to mask Python 3. >> > >> > But everyone else in Gentoo does, so . . . >> >> Some Gentoo developers/users, who aren't Python maintainers, said that >> they didn't object to have Python 3 installed. > > They're in the minority, judging by the replies in this thread. > I am still of the mind that telling users python3 is here is sufficient. Users should already know how to mask packages; I am unconvinced that this update is any different from any other update where I get a news item that foo is out; I don't want to use foo, so I mask foo. If you want to recommend masking python 3 yourself I suggest you blog about= it. -A