On Thu, 19 Apr 2018, 19:02 Jonathan Wakely, <jwak...@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On 19/04/18 18:42 +0100, Jonathan Wakely wrote: > >On 19/04/18 19:07 +0200, Miro Hrončok wrote: > >>I was recently surprised that `dnf install boost` brings in python2. > >> > >>It is like that because boost brings in bost-python and that is > >>python2 ATM. I've reported it as a bug, because it bugs me :) > >> > >>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1569483 > >> > >>However Jonathan Wakely (the boost maintainer) says this needs > >>broader audience. > >> > >>So I'm asking here on devel: > >> > >>Should the 'boost' metapackage install boost-python at all? If so, > >>what versions? > > > >I think my preference would be to simply remove boost-python and > >boost-numpy from the 'boost' package, and remove their headers and > >shared library symlinks from the boost-devel package. > > > >This would make the Boost.Python packaging consistent for python2 and > >python3: you'd always need to explicitly choose which you want. > > > >This will mean if you want to install Boost.Python you won't be able > >to just use 'dnf install boost' you'll need to also install > >boost-python2 or boost-python3 explicitly. > > > >If you want to compile code using Boost.Python it won't be enough to > >install boost-devel, you'll need to choose either boost-python2-devel > >or boost-python3-devel. > > > >The alternative would be to switch the "default" to be the python3 > >packages (and split some things out into new packages, e.g. currently > >boost-mpich-devel installs %{_libdir}/mpich/lib/libboost_mpi_python.so > >but this should really be in a separate boost-mpich-python2-devel > >package). > > I forgot to mention that this will break any packages using > Boost.Python which currently just have BR: boost-devel but that's > arguably a good thing anyway. It will be easy to fix them, and we will > have to make an explicit decision whether they should really be > using the python2 version, or should use boost-python3 instead. > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Honestly this sounds like the best idea for the path to take... especially with the looming removal of python2 in F30 anyway. > >
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