Am 05.06.2010 20:31, schrieb Harald van Dijk: > On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 05:49:08PM +0200, Thomas Sachau wrote: >> If any package does inherit python or distutils eclass, then those eclasses >> do pull in >> "dev-lang/python", which is unversioned, so it will always pull in the >> latest version, in this case >> python-3*. You could change this, so it allows any major installed slot to >> satisfy the python >> dependency. > > A dependency on dev-lang/python *is* satisfied by any slot, any version. > You've > been told so already, if I recall correctly. > >
Every slot and every version *should* satisfy a "dev-lang/python" dependency, but currently such unspecified version dependency does automaticly pull in the latest version/slot, which in case of python does mean python-3*, even when you have e.g. python:2.6 installed. -- Thomas Sachau Gentoo Linux Developer
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