On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 09:36:52PM +0100, Ben de Groot wrote: > On 24 March 2010 21:25, William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > If we make it clear in the news item that python-3 cannot be used as the > > default python, so if users do not want it they should mask it, we have > > done our job imho. In other words, this is just a matter of informing > > users. > > We agree that this is the minimum that should be done. But our > Python lead stubbornly refuses to honor this reasonable request. On the other hand, I can see his point as well. The news item makes it very clear that python-3 cannot be the default python and that python-2 needs to be installed.
It could be argued that he is just assuming that users are intelligent enough to figure out that they need to mask python-3 if they do not want it on their systems. Basically this is a case of "how much hand-holding do we want to do"? William
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