Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote:
2010-03-19 11:13:48 Dale napisał(a):
Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:23:31 -0500
Dale<rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote:
It's being installed because it's a dependency of something you use.
Replace Python with any other library and we wouldn't be having this
discussion.
OK. Right now, as you type this, what package depends on python-3
and won't work with python-2? Anything at all? If it is nothing,
then why install it?
And that's where you're making the mistake: you're treating Python as
being different from every other package.
In every other case, you want things to be using the newest version of a
slotted package where possible. Why aren't you complaining that you were
forced to install gcc 4.3 and 4.1 when 3.4 worked just fine?
Because, when I installed gcc 4.3, I could then unmerge the old gcc.
That's why I didn't complain about that. With python, we still have to
have the current version plus the new version which is not being used at
all.
Am I not correct in that? If the new python is installed, what exactly
is going to use it? I used the new gcc. It worked fine. I unmerged
the old one with no wasted space and one less package installed. This
doesn't appear to be the case with python-3 tho. It's going to be
installed and just sit there like a rock.
Python 3 is used during installation of packages, which support Python 2 and
Python 3 and support installation for multiple Python ABIs. You can directly
execute scripts with "-3.1" suffix (e.g. "bpython-3.1" or "coverage-3.1")
to use Python 3.1 even when Python 2.* is set as main active version of Python.
But again, if it will work with python2 then you don't need python3. So
you still don't need it installed just as has been said many times.
Dale
:-) :-)
