On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:14, Joshua Saddler <nightmo...@gentoo.org> wrote: > Aaaand none of my packages that are installed "want" to use it. That's what > I'm sayin'. Maybe if I ran ~arch they'd ask for Python 3.x, but I run stable, > so *nothing* wants to use it. Every other stable user is in the same > situation. You seem to be ignoring us, the stable users, in favor of rushing > 3.x out of ~arch, like that makes some kind of perceived problem go away.
I *am* a stable user, and I do want to install python3 (without having to override keywords -- because my packager, the gentoo python team, says it works!). I recognize the cruft problem, but I don't think keeping things in unstable is the right solution for solving it, because they should IMO be orthogonal. > Yet that's the net effect -- everyone *will* have it installed. . . unless > folks start getting crafty with pseudo version ranges, as Zac mentioned. I guess we'll have to do that then. Cheers, Dirkjan