Petteri Räty wrote: > Every Gentoo system where world or system includes deps like >> =dev-lang/python-2.5 will get it installed because in this case Portage > will automatically update to the latest slot at least according to my > quick research. I don't like putting stuff to users systems that they > have no need for.
For portage-2.1.7 I'm planning to add version range detection, so ebuilds like that can use <dev-lang/python-3.0 in order to prevent incompatible new versions of python from being pulled in unnecessarily. See this bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285767 -- Thanks, Zac
