On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 08:32:16PM +0100, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis 
wrote:
> I would like to introduce incompatible improvements in syntax of 
> PYTHON_DEPEND variable in
> EAPI >=4. The new syntax will depend on whether given package supports 
> installation for
> multiple Python ABIs. The extended functionality will replace 
> PYTHON_USE_WITH* variables.
> 
> [...]

Your changes are far too complicated to me. Python eclass and
consequently writing python ebuilds is a difficult task already.
If you keep adding more and more "magic" in this eclass,
you will end up supporting and fixing all the python ebuilds by
yourself. Maybe you should consider splitting python eclass 
into two separate modules. One for core functionality and 
another one which will inherit this core eclass and export 
a simple API so the rest of us can use python eclass without 
having to study all the documentation for a month.

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