Let's have the conversation at https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/8733 . My initial message copied below.
James Python 2.6 is not receiving security updates as of October 2013. I think it's a bad idea to have insecure software hanging around, so this pull request deletes it. If people really want to keep it, can we make it impossible to accidentally install, e.g. make it require a iUnderstandPython26IsInsecureButIWantItAnyway config option to be set to true? Paging @bjornfor as a random person who's touched Python stuff recently. (I'm making this change fairly blindly.) It looks like cudatoolkit explicitly depends on Python 2.6, but this override has been copied and pasted from version to version. Paging @jb55 as a random person who's modified cudatoolkit stuff. Paging @geerds who posted on nix-dev about using Python 2.6 last year. _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
