William Hubbs posted on Wed, 24 Mar 2010 13:03:34 -0500 as excerpted: > If users do not want python-3 on > their systems, that is what /etc/portage/package.mask is for.
I think pretty much everyone agrees with that. What we're debating is whether the stabling news item should specifically mention package.mask as an option before it goes stable. Fortunately or unfortunately, despite the stated Gentoo policy of "documentation but not hand holding", stable Gentoo users are in fact used to having a bit of extra hand-holding and have come to expect it. While the generally given reason for said hand-holding is that we're simply avoiding the flood of bugs we'd otherwise get, and arguably that doesn't apply in this case (arguably, because there are still and will be new python dependency bugs that this will trigger), it's an expectation stable users have come to have, and failing to specifically mention the package.mask option violates this expectation. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
