On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 5:00 PM Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > On Thu, 2021-04-29 at 14:44 +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > > > > > > On Thu, 29 Apr 2021, Michał Górny wrote: > > > > > +Title: Python 3.9 to become the default target on 2021-06-01 > > > > Title is longer than the maximum allowed by GLEP 42 (50 chars). > > > > > [...] > > > > > +If you have PYTHON_TARGETS or PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET declared > > > +in make.conf, it is strongly recommended to remove the declarations > > > +and use package.use as presented above. Use of make.conf to set > > > flags > > > +is strongly discouraged as it does not respect package defaults. > > > > These sentences are somewhat redundant with each other, at least the > > "strongly recommended" / "strongly discouraged" part. > > Done and done. The second sentence is meant to explain why it is > discouraged. > > -- > Best regards, > Michał Górny >
Is this strongly discouraged across-the-board, or strictly for this python stuff? How strongly is it discouraged? The handbook doesn't seem to mention anything about discouraging this practice, and indeed seems to encourage it: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Base#Configuring_the_USE_variable
