On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 05:10:05PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > You may have noticed a lot of changes to BLFS in the last couple of > weeks. I thought I'd share some of what I did and why. > Thanks for all your work on this. I haven't looked at the details in most of these changes, but I worry slightly about one of them: > Wed Oct 26 15:34:23 CDT 2011 /usr/src/python/Python-3.2.2.tar.xz
When I was looking at upgrades, and extra packages, for my desktop I think I saw a lot of gentoo ebuilds that needed python2. Searching just now re possible python3 problems I can't pin my finger on anything specific that still needs python2, so perhaps it was just a transitional problem. Supposedly, fedora used to ship both python2 and python3 (I can't easily check if they still do that, fedora gitweb is all but impossible to access whenever I try it), and I found a claim that a lot of the packages in arch's 'aur' (user-maintained repo) needed python2. For myself, I've stuck to python2 for the moment - enough other things were changing, and I don't like python, it's only a dependency. Hopefully, not too much will require the old version. Apart from that possible issue, the changes look like a worthwhile step forward. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
