On 11 March 2010 01:25, William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote: > If someone has a package that truly works with either python 2 or 3, > what is the harm in automatically pulling in python 3 and installing > the package for both python 2 and 3? > > As long as pulling in python-3 doesn't change the system's default > python interpretor I don't see a problem with having them both > installed.
I've seen enough python-3 specific bugs to know it is not without problems. It's a waste of time and resources for something that is not ready to be used anyway. While it can be argued that that is what our testing branch is for, it is certainly not something that should be pushed to stable users. Even if it would be just "dead weight", it is not something we should wish for. It is bloat, it is unnecessary, and causes more problems than that it solves. Why should users have to compile multiple python versions, if they only use one anyway? Cheers, -- Ben de Groot Gentoo Linux developer (qt, media, lxde, desktop-misc) ______________________________________________________
