On Sun, Apr 14, 2019 at 8:44 AM Ralph Seichter <gen...@seichter.de> wrote: > > * Michał Górny: > > > I presume you want to proxy-maintain all of those packages. > > I would want to maintain the "monty" application because it offers > functionality useful to me. I'm not particularly keen on maintaining > Python ebuilds required as dependencies by only one application.
Speaking on behalf of the python team, we are not particularly keen on maintaining libraries that are only used by a single package. We have too many packages to care for already. > Like everybody else, I have only a finite amount of time I can spend on > Gentoo packages. I usually start with a separate venv for Python apps so > I can "pip install ..." and make do without ebuilds. This is actually the approach I would suggest for most applications. Not everything needs to be handled in an ebuild; often it just increases the amount of busy work you end up doing.
