On 03-12-2010 11:35:14 +0100, Sebastian Pipping wrote: > to better communicate USE_PYTHON we could use: > > - a portage news entry
why portage? > - notifications from within ebuilds > > - a users guide counterpart of > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/Python/developersguide.xml > > - mentioning in 'man make.conf' why? make.conf is for "custom settings for Portage". Python ebuilds should solve this, preferably matching the slots of python being installed. > This is overdue and has some urgency. > > > Are you volunteering to get this going? > > Feel free to derive from <http://blog.hartwork.org/?p=972>. > > As it involves a GLEP and GuideXML maybe that's perfect for involving > people being recruited at the moment. Why a GLEP? The only thing you can do just now, is to make USE_PYTHON default to something people would expect, and to be properly documented, such that it turns up in search result somewhere at the top. (Last time I needed it, I couldn't find it any more.) -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level