Re: [gentoo-python] Python 3 in Gentoo

[Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>]

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Dirkjan Ochtman <djc@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 5:56 PM, Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> Where else in the tree could this concept be applied?
>
> I think php5 was first handled this way? Maybe apache2?
> dev-python/jinja2, for sure.
>
>> I would prefer to avoid going through the EAPI process if it is just
>> going to be used for python. And even then, I'm not really excited
>> about the prospect of explaining it.
>
> Nor am I, really. And may be we should pursue your idea at the same
> time. But I think it would sure be nice if we can prevent painting
> ourselves into a similar corner a few years down the road.
>

Ok. I think we will need something a bit more formally defined before
we take such a proposal to a wider audience.

>> A solution that works within the confines of the current EAPI spec
>> should be greatly preferred.
>
> So do you know how many ebuilds we'd have to update to get it right?
>

At the moment, no. If someone could help me write a script to identify
affected packages, that would be great.

If said script uses the portage api to determine the dependency tree,
we will want to modify python.eclass first to reduce the number of
hits. This could be done in a local copy of the tree.