From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 91D83138334 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2018 22:30:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E3E0EE091D; Wed, 25 Jul 2018 22:29:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from icp-osb-irony-out4.external.iinet.net.au (icp-osb-irony-out4.external.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.220]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A782FE0876 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2018 22:29:51 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: =?us-ascii?q?A2BZBQBA+Vhb/16i0HZdHAEBAQQBAQo?= =?us-ascii?q?BAYNNZmoSKIN+iGWNPQgkiD+PBAuEbAKCZiE4FAECAQEBAQEBAm0ohTcBBSN?= =?us-ascii?q?mCw0LAgImAgIhNhMGAgEBFoMGgWgDFLB8gS4aAoRBgj0NgyaBC4gOgUE/gTg?= =?us-ascii?q?MgjEuglaCdII0glUCjR4ti38rCYwpgwYGiCoTA4U/ixyHEYEjNSGBUk0fGYM?= =?us-ascii?q?kgk2OEzIwjmgBAQ?= X-IPAS-Result: =?us-ascii?q?A2BZBQBA+Vhb/16i0HZdHAEBAQQBAQoBAYNNZmoSKIN+i?= =?us-ascii?q?GWNPQgkiD+PBAuEbAKCZiE4FAECAQEBAQEBAm0ohTcBBSNmCw0LAgImAgIhN?= =?us-ascii?q?hMGAgEBFoMGgWgDFLB8gS4aAoRBgj0NgyaBC4gOgUE/gTgMgjEuglaCdII0g?= =?us-ascii?q?lUCjR4ti38rCYwpgwYGiCoTA4U/ixyHEYEjNSGBUk0fGYMkgk2OEzIwjmgBA?= =?us-ascii?q?Q?= X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.51,402,1526313600"; d="scan'208";a="91441937" Received: from unknown (HELO mail.vm.localdomain) ([118.208.162.94]) by icp-osb-irony-out4.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 26 Jul 2018 06:29:49 +0800 Received: from localhost (mail.vm.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.vm.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 698AB64D7F for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2018 06:29:48 +0800 (AWST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at localdomain Received: from mail.vm.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.vm.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id lmZ2Xh8F9tPR for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2018 06:29:16 +0800 (AWST) Received: from [192.168.44.7] (rattus.lan.localdomain [192.168.44.7]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: wdk) by mail.vm.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C10C264D78 for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2018 06:26:58 +0800 (AWST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Any real need to switch python targets back and forth every month? To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: From: Bill Kenworthy Message-ID: Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2018 06:26:06 +0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.0 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 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-AU X-Archives-Salt: fe2f496b-3ff4-4bf1-a44a-f218f7a54c8b X-Archives-Hash: ac333e5843ee5f32e9cc2ca9c0d3b903 On 25/07/18 23:20, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 7:58 AM Grand Duet wrote: >> After today's emerge-webrsync, I have found that python_targets >> and python_single_targets use flags have been changed again >> from python3_5 to python3_6, which leads to a lot of recompilation. >> >> It already happened last month and a week later the both use flags >> was changed back, again with a lot of recompilations. >> >> And it was not the first time! >> >> Is any real need to switch python_targets and python_single_target >> back and forth every month? >> > It's very simple: > > 1. The default was switched to python3.6. This was probably a bit premature. > 2. People complained that this broke their systems, so we reverted the > default back to python3.5. > 3. The problems were fixed, so we switched the default back to python3.6. > > Sorry to have wasted your precious computing time, but hey, people > make mistakes sometimes. > Major impact on users as well as creating confusion, talk on how a lot of packages fail on 3.6 whats to say this isn't another mistake - isn't this what news articles are for? BillK