On 5/14/2012 12:50 AM, Ben de Groot wrote: > On 14 May 2012 04:27, Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> To make ebuilds utilizing python-distutils-ng.eclass usable >> "out-of-the-box", the python team would like to add the following to >> make.defaults in the base profile. >> >> PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7" >> >> See also bug 415575 [1]. >> >> Any objections? > > I think this is a good addition. > >> I would also like to include python3_2, but I do not think this will be >> possible due to dev-lang/python:3.2 not being stabilized on several >> arches. Perhaps this could be set in arch-specific profiles? Would that >> work? > > I don't see how python:3.2 is useful for most of our users. And I > especially don't see how having two python versions installed (but > only one active) is useful for most of our users. So let's make > sure only one version gets pulled in, unless specifically > configured by the user.
So long as any installed package depends on dev-lang/python without specifying a version, the user will end up with python-3 unless they mask it. There is no easy way out of that situation at this point; I think it would basically require renaming >=dev-lang/python-3 to something else. If we acknowledge that users have both python:3.2 and python:2.7 installed most of the time, I think it makes sense to set the default value of PYTHON_TARGETS to match that expectation.
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