On 03/24/2010 02:28 PM, Joshua Saddler wrote:
On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:04:51 +0100 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar
Arahesis<arfre...@gentoo.org> wrote:
People, don't want Python 3, probably have already masked it. There
is no reason to waste Council's time for decision on what sentence
should be included in the news item.
Not the folks running the stable tree, because they don't know about
it. They're not following the discussion here on -dev. They're going
to get unpleasantly surprised when it shows up in their next world
update.
Include instructions on how to mask it if desired in the news item.
Will not masking python-3 cause anything to break in any way? Do users
need to do anything to make python-2.6 or whatever the default
interpreter (instructions for using eselect python are not given in the
news item)?
If the only potential issue is that users might have a few extra files
installed that they don't need but which won't cause them problems, then
I don't know that we need to instruct users to create masks.
If having python-3 will cause stable users problems, then we probably
shouldn't be stabilizing it anyway.
Compared to the KDE 3->4 migration this is probably going to be a fairly
minor issue for most stable users, unless we're expecting breakage.
Rich
