On Sat, 16 Nov 2013 10:11:47 +0100
Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote:

> >>>>> On Fri, 15 Nov 2013, Robin H Johnson wrote:
> 
> > Add this line to the dev-lang/python-exec ebuilds:
> > PDEPEND=">=dev-python/python-exec-10000:$SLOT"
> 
> This looks wrong to me. On a newly installed system, currrently only
> dev-lang/python-exec:2 would be installed. Adding above PDEPEND would
> unnecessarily pull dev-python/python-exec:2 and
> dev-lang/python-exec:0.

dev-python/python-exec:2 has no files so barely takes space (just vdb).

dev-lang/python-exec:0 is 292 KiB; yeah, unnecessary, one might wonder
if the dev-lang/python-exec:0 dependency of dev-python/python-exec:2
has any use.
 
> And IIUC, the idea was to eventually get rid of
> dev-python/python-exec.

Removing the dependencies on it and masking should still work for this.

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