On Tuesday 21 July 2015 18:59:00 Ben de Groot wrote: > On 20 July 2015 at 17:27, Jason Zaman <perfin...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 10:39:25AM +0200, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: > >> On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 6:03 AM, Ben de Groot <yng...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> > I would like to hear from the other team members, yes. > >> > >> I have sympathy towards those who are asking for only one Python in > >> stages (as in, I would be fine with that), but I very much think we > >> should not leave Python 3 out of generally installed systems by > >> default. We need to move through the transition, and increasing the > >> barriers to Python 3 adoption will only make that process slower. > >> > >> I also feel like a voting process for this is probably not a solution. > > > > I also very much dislike shipping only python2. Having only one python > > is admirable and I'm all for it but if we only ship one by default it > > should be python3. > > That is a nice sentiment, but unpractical. We have a lot more packages > that require python2, while we only have 74 that require python3. > > While it may be possible to ship with python3 only (I haven't looked > at what the packages in stage3 support), users will almost certainly > need to install python2 when they start installing more packages. > > But if we ship with python2 only, then most users won't need python3. > Those who want it, can of course simply add it. Going with python2 as > default simply makes more sense.
Hmm on desktop machine with kde and etc. i have only one package with deps on python3 - onboard (because no packages with same functional). :)
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