On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 01:44:21PM +0100, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: > On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 12:35 PM, Patrick Lauer <[email protected]> wrote: > > * Stage3 archives are too fat > > See https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=531632 > > We're now shipping three python versions and glib for extra fun! > > Fix: Motivate releng to stop being silly > > Why the heck do we ship both 3.3 and 3.4? I forget the exact situation > with 2.x and 3.x, but I don't think setting PYTHON_TARGETS to 2.7-only > is a great option if that remains the default after installation > (although it would be fine for just the initial stages).
I'm going to be very blunt. I am sick of the finger being pointed only at releng for this. The issue is package dependencies. If even one package in the tree has a dumb dependency on python, e.g. dev-lang/python, it will pull in all stable versionf of python. If all the dependencies are correct, on the other hand, it is a matter of setting python_targets to include the versions of python we want in the stages and making sure that everything we include in the stages works with those versions of python. William
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