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From: Dirkjan Ochtman <djc@gentoo.org>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 11:23:31 +0200
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-python] Python 3 in Gentoo
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Cc: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>, gentoo-python@lists.gentoo.org
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On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Micha=C5=82 G=C3=B3rny <mgorny@gentoo.org=
> wrote:
> You're saying 'we should explore the option not to upgrade packages
> without user explicitly saying "please upgrade this package"'.
Yes, or until the package maintainer removes the annotation again.
>> > Or maybe we should explore the option of fixing python.eclass to not
>> > depend on random python versions implicitly?
>>
>> I don't know that it does, but I hope you can enlighten me!
>
> It does depend on python versions based on $USE_PYTHON. And USE_PYTHON
> defaults to 2+3 if installed. If it pulls in Python 3, it will pull in
> all the time unless you set USE_PYTHON manually and remerge all
> the packages manually.
It seems to me that we could fix USE_PYTHON to always depend only on 2
unless it's explicitly set by the user, but it seems to me that
Portage would, in that case, still pull python3 into the stages.
Cheers,
Dirkjan