On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 05:49:08PM +0200, Thomas Sachau wrote: > If any package does inherit python or distutils eclass, then those eclasses > do pull in > "dev-lang/python", which is unversioned, so it will always pull in the latest > version, in this case > python-3*. You could change this, so it allows any major installed slot to > satisfy the python > dependency.
A dependency on dev-lang/python *is* satisfied by any slot, any version. You've been told so already, if I recall correctly.