From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OMlJe-00072D-Ol for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:13:19 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 487FAE086C; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:11:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3FA9E086C for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:11:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyb35 with SMTP id 35so114545wyb.40 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:11:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=ZzFxKW4J5aBNaXQLFIVt60eLAqPufwGZeBDMYF+04HE=; b=mck5B791OdO5sJnf+SusWu9AT+L5ozF9ZQBYKNgClgEPr3+5cVSQE/JYO+2E3fQAGv jO0nrkGGXSFqnwlJrF39xxUFcw/nL8aqUChGmInb9NQSbDELcwI1+jwprkXqVsq80NlQ LIumcw1vUY9OdD2Wj102YXZFPkXfR4sjTKiTc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=aGm/9S3Qouoro68Oh9NwDO74fZapVfiYN8L3I0Oeu7gBx5AZ40y4lEkYfrF2miiNjV 6uFUrG6/3B8GXFjwBRvScAqvVbP9/XjxKZ73y1jPZ3CNHREZgmm8ypIj7/ZsG6Eb4LTI lah3Wi2/gOuSX87zgXaak527HlY1VrmsSQZ8o= Received: by 10.216.91.13 with SMTP id g13mr651635wef.94.1276189906957; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:11:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (adsl-0-121-54.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.121.54]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id k83sm130144wej.0.2010.06.10.10.11.43 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:11:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C111CCE.60201@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:11:42 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100527 Gentoo/2.0.4-r1 SeaMonkey/2.0.4 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strange python-updater error References: <4C0F6DA5.8040105@numericable.fr> <4C0FAE81.5090006@gmail.com> <4C0FB220.4090107@libertytrek.org> <201006091821.20489.wonko@wonkology.org> <20100609172810.21a70885@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <4C0FC643.5080002@libertytrek.org> <4C1079C0.2020006@gmail.com> <4C10BD79.20301@darkmetatron.de> In-Reply-To: <4C10BD79.20301@darkmetatron.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 73b55751-96a1-4f10-8457-93fe5a353527 X-Archives-Hash: 6aed58acc010df435c5898391dfb2e59 Sebastian Be=DFler wrote: > Am 10.06.2010 07:36, schrieb Dale: > > =20 >> To think the devs didn't believe this was going to cause some confusio= n. >> =20 > There is a news regarding python 3 after the install of python 3. > It clearly says that is ok to have both installed parallel, and runnig > python-updater is recommended, but you should never ever set python 3 a= s > system default until further notice. > > On the dev-list putting python 3 into stable and how to handle it was > debated with many powerful emotions assigned. > > They knew what they did.. If how they handled that problem is good or > not is a other pair of shoes. > > Greetings > > Sebastian > > =20 Yep, I was part of that discussion so I know about it. News item or=20 not, marking something as stable still confuses people when you are then=20 told you can't use it. With most packages it would not matter much but=20 when very little can use this package, it is sort of silly. Dale :-) :-)