On Sun, 2 Sep 2012 13:16:38 -0400
Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 8:21 AM, Thomas Sachau <tommy@gentoo.org>
> wrote:
> > Mike Gilbert schrieb:
> >> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Dirkjan Ochtman <djc@gentoo.org>
> >> wrote:
> >>> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 9:07 PM, Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>>> Does this seem like a viable option? Is anyone going to
> >>>>> volunteer to take it from here?
> >>>>
> >>>> I can try to make time to make these changes this weekend if
> >>>> everyone is fine with that.
> >>>
> >>> I think we should inform gentoo-dev first.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Just in case someone is waiting for me to take some further
> >> actions on this, please don't wait on me. I really don't have the
> >> motivation to carry this plan any further.
> >>
> >> If someone else wants to carry the torch, I am happy to assist.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Just to get the right summary:
> >
> > The plan is now to replace all dependencies in ebuilds, which have
> > either "dev-lang/python" or something like ">=dev-lang/python-X.Y"
> > to use "virtual/python" instead?
> >
> 
> That's right.
> 
> > What about versioned dependencies exluding python versions still in
> > the main tree like ">=dev-lang/python-2.7"?
> >
> 
> In this case the virtual would not work. Instead, it could be replaced
> with this:
> 
> || ( =dev-lang/python-2.7* =dev-lang/python-3* )
> 
> Similarly, >=dev-lang/python-2.6 could be replaced with this:
> 
> || ( =dev-lang/python-2.7* =dev-lang/python-2.6* =dev-lang/python-3* )

You could go with virtual/python-2.7, -2.6, -2.5 being an appropriate
minimal version.


-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny