On 24 March 2010 19:41, Richard Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > 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
Did you even read the whole thread? And the other one named "Packages pulling in python-3*, also they dont require it"? -- Ben de Groot Gentoo Linux Qt project lead developer
