On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 7:21 AM Michał Górny <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> For this reason, we have decided to change the default python-exec
> configuration to match PYTHON_TARGETS by default, in the eclass
> preference order, that is from the newest CPython version to oldest,
> with alternative Python implementations coming afterwards.  This change
> will be propagated via the configuration protection mechanism whenever
> dev-lang/python-exec-conf is installed or rebuilt due to PYTHON_TARGETS
> changes.  This will permit the users to interactively confirm
> the updates.
>
> If the new default is not correct for you, please use your preferred
> configuration update tool to discard or edit the new configuration file.

Could we just spell out what the actual setting is?  That way if a
user accepts or rejects the change accidentally it is trivial to fix,
vs making them hunt through the installed files to do a diff...

Nothing wrong with the instructions - I'd just add one line about what
setting controls this.

-- 
Rich

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