Re: [gentoo-python] Reducing exceptionality cases for PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET

[Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Dnia 2014-10-30, o godz. 15:21:17
> Ian Stakenvicius <axs@gentoo.org> napisał(a):
>
>> After discussion and review by mgorny, and significantly more testing,
>> here's an updated version of the previous patch.
>>
>> To reiterate, this patch changes python-single-r1 so that if there is
>> only one supported Python implementation that can satisfy the ebuild,
>> then PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET is ignored, and the ebuild is bound by the
>> value(s) set in PYTHON_TARGETS instead.
>
> It is not ignored but not declared, which is good. Ignoring is bad :).
>
> So I was pretty skeptic about this at first but after thinking it all
> over a few times, I think it will work just fine. While it benefits
> only the 'bad' kind of packages and adds some complexity, I believe
> this is a worthwhile change.

I guess I'm still a little skeptical.

What is the advantage to making such a change to python-single-r1 as
opposed to just using python-r1 with a single implementation in
PYTHON_COMPAT?