2010-03-08 22:28:16 William Hubbs napisaƂ(a):
> On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 04:19:36PM -0800, Zac Medico wrote:
> > No, it won't. To prove it, I've just tested with a stable stage3
> > containing portage-2.1.7.x. Here are the steps:
> > 
> > 1) extract stable stage3 and chroot into it
> > 2) mkdir /etc/portage && echo "dev-lang/python ~*" >>
> > /etc/portage/package.keywords
> > 3) Run `emerge -pu --deep=1 portage`:
> >    These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
> > 
> >    Calculating dependencies... done!
> >    [ebuild     UD] sys-apps/sandbox-1.6-r2 [2.2]
> >    [ebuild     UD] app-shells/bash-4.0_p35 [4.0_p37]
> >    [ebuild     U ] dev-lang/python-2.6.4-r1 [2.6.4]
> > 
> > If you try `emerge -puD world` then you will see
> > dev-lang/python-3.1.1-r1 pulled in by the unspecific dev-lang/python
> > atoms in the cracklib and libxml2 dependencies. However, in
> > portage-2.1.7.x (current stable), there is support for
> > pseudo-version-ranges in dependencies. This allows you use a
> > dependency like <dev-lang/python-3 in a package that doesn't support
> > python3, and that will prevent it from getting pulled into the
> 
> According to this, we can fix all of the dependencies in the tree then
> stabilize python3 without having any issues, so I would vote for this
> route, because it still oinsures that the stable tree will work
> together.

Almost everybody has at least 1 package installed which supports both Python 2
and Python 3 and depends on dev-lang/python without version specification,
so Python 3 would be pulled into dependency graph, so fixing of dependencies
doesn't need to block stabilization of Python 3.

-- 
Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis

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