On 2024-10-12 11:13, Michał Górny wrote:
On Sat, 2024-10-12 at 10:50 +0200, Luca Barbato wrote:
On 12/10/24 10:12, Michał Górny wrote:
> Comments?
>
I'm afraid it would lead to way too many packages and I'm not sure the
overall experience would be an improvement.
5 are too many?
Absolutely no, and your proposal seems to solve the shortcomings of
slotting given the limitations. Just Python is not the only language
with multiple simultaneous versions supported in Gentoo (Ruby comes to
mind first), and it opens a slippery slope.
Is there anything that makes Python unique enough to stand out from
conventions estabilished for packaging other languages? Or would it
essentially lead to a new policy?
(I'm satisfied with using 'package.mask' and 'package.accept_keywords'
to prevent "greedy" upgrades, if that matters)
