On Monday, June 27, 2011 12:00:19 Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: > On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 17:53, Petteri Räty <betelge...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > I like the ruby approach for the reason that it doesn't require users to > > run update scripts like python-updater. > > Sure, but if that means the developers now have to bump every package > in the tree when a new version of Python comes out, I'm not sure > that's the best trade-off.
if that's the requirement, i'd lean towards the python route we have today. especially because python-updater will hit all necessary packages where-as ruby will often not as that requires you to do `emerge -u <all installed packages>`. -mike
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