On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 02:41:28PM -0400, Richard Freeman 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)? I'm not the python maintainer, but as I understand it,python-2.6 will be the default interpretor until it is changed manually.
> 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. AFAIK, this is the issue. If python-3 is installed, it will cause extra files to be installed, not justin python-3, but any packages that support both python-2 and python-3 will potentially get files installed for both versions of python. > If having python-3 will cause stable users problems, then we probably > shouldn't be stabilizing it anyway. AFAIK, the only "problem" we are debating about is the extra files being installed. William
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