On Monday 07 December 2009 22:14:55 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 7 Dec 2009 23:10:18 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > The only benefit, which is questionable, is that python-3 is where its > > at development-wise, and maybe perhaps the 2* series will become > > unmaintained (shades of KDE-3). But I suspect that day is still far off. > > Also, as things are able to make use of Python 3, it will be there. But > that doesn't warrant a "highly recommended", if anything needs it, > portage will install it anyway.
There's another wrinkle, too. I did follow the recommendation and install Python 3, but what will happen when my current 2.6.4 is upgraded to, say, 2.7.0 and I want to run python-updater? Will I find myself updated to version 3 instead? Maybe I should just remove Python 3 pro tem. -- Rgds Peter
