On Sat, Oct 12, 2024, 06:23 Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 2024-10-12 at 12:13 +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > > > > > > On Sat, 12 Oct 2024, Michał Górny wrote: > > > > > > IMHO this would abuse the package name for information that > absolutely > > > > doesn't belong there. It belongs in PV or SLOT. > > > > > > > > To me it seems that you try to work around a problem (greedy upgrade > > > > behaviour) that should really be solved in the package manager. > > > > > In my opinion, it's the other way around. We have slots, that are a > fit > > > solution for packages that are roughly compatible between every major > > > release, and we keep abusing them for every single thing we can bend > > > enough to make it fit. > > > > So are you saying that Python versions aren't "roughly compatible" > > between releases? Like, they're a completely different language? > > They're not compatible in the sense "if I install package for > python3.12, it will work in python3.13", because every version uses > a separate package tree. Upstream has effectively made every version > separate. On top of that, the same "minor" version can have a PyPy > variation and a "freethreading" variation now. > > -- > Best regards, > Michał Górny > How will this affect ebuilds that can use any version of Python 3? Will it need a giant or-block in DEPEND? >
