Hello friends,
On Sunday, October 29, 2017, Alan McKinnon <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 29/10/2017 11:11, Peter Humphrey wrote:
>> On Sun, 29 Oct 2017 19:31:46 +1100
>> Adam Carter <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>> On my amd64 arch machine I;
>>>> emerged python 3.5
>>>> eselected python 3.5
>>>> edited make.conf to set PYTHON_TARGETS to "python2_7 python3_5"
>>>> running emerge -pv --depclean =python-3.4.5 to see what needs to be
>>>> rebuilt Then tryed to rebuild those packages to allow removal of 3.4,
>>>> however, it looks like that I would then have to change
>>>> PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET to 3.5 too, and some other packages still require
>>>> it to be set to 2.7, so i've bailed out of trying to get rid of 3.4 on
>>>> that box. I'll leave PYTHON_TARGETS at "python2_7 python3_5" unless I
>>>> find something that also needs 3.4 in there.
>>>>
>>>> Failure came fast, example;
>>> The following REQUIRED_USE flag constraints are unsatisfied:
>>> python? ( at-most-one-of ( python_targets_python3_4
>>> python_targets_python3_5 python_targets_python3_6 )
>>>
>>> So ive unset PYTHON_TARGETS and PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET again.
>>
>> Do you actually need any python entries in make.conf? I'm running happily
>> here without any. I just let the profile and ebuilds sort out what they
>> need.
>>
>
>
> For the most part, and for the regular user, that is generally fine. The
> devs and profile maintainers take care of all the fiddly bits and ensure
> that the settings are correct across the tree when they update the
> profile to use the next Pythn version
>
> For some users (aka the typical Gentoo'er) that doesn't really cut it.
> Maybe the user wants to fiddle with python-3.5 before the profile is
> ready for it.
>
> Maybe the user wants to use some nifty new package or take advantage of
> new features in python-3.5. This is the thing R0b0t1 was referring to.
> In that case, the user must do for himself what the profile maintainers
> do for you. That user also gets to keep all the shiny broken bits whilst
> figuring out what to set for what
>
I've mentioned this on the forum, but unless a user is interested in
specifically testing Python's interaction with system packages it is
probably best to merge new versions explicitly. There will be lots of shiny
pieces indeed.
Cheers,
R0b0t1.
