Re: [gentoo-python] Python 3 in Gentoo

[Matthew Summers <quantumsummers@gentoo.org>]

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Matthew Summers
> <quantumsummers@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> Could we not just set a dep as =dev-lang/python:2 so that any version
>> of python-2.* would satisfy the dep? Or, would this cause issues in
>> avoiding old versions of python (python-2.5)? It might be enough to
>> change the portage ebuild to work as it does now for the USE python2
>> and python3, but in the case where those flags are not set, then just
>> pull in python:2 which would yield the latest stable version of
>> python-2.*
>
> Using an || dep with to separate =dev-lang/python-2* and
> =dev-lang/python-3* (or something roughly equivalent) is enough to
> trigger the desired behavior from portage. See my previous message in
> this thread.
>
>> For python-updater, I might be inclined to add similar USE to portage
>> to manage the deps.
>
> No need for the use-flags. Again, I think the || dep is sufficient.
>

Yes, that makes sense, its a matter of order then.

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Matthew W. Summers
Gentoo Foundation Inc.