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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] PYTHON_DEPEND in EAPI >=4, PYTHON_BDEPEND
From:       Jeremy Olexa <darkside () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2010-11-29 4:13:46
Message-ID: 4CF3287A.2040803 () gentoo ! org
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On 11/28/2010 02:15 PM, Markos Chandras wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 08:32:16PM +0100, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote:
>> I would like to introduce incompatible improvements in syntax of PYTHON_DEPEND variable in
>> EAPI>=4. The new syntax will depend on whether given package supports installation for
>> multiple Python ABIs. The extended functionality will replace PYTHON_USE_WITH* variables.
>>
>> [...]
>
> Your changes are far too complicated to me. Python eclass and
> consequently writing python ebuilds is a difficult task already.
> If you keep adding more and more "magic" in this eclass,
> you will end up supporting and fixing all the python ebuilds by
> yourself. Maybe you should consider splitting python eclass
> into two separate modules. One for core functionality and
> another one which will inherit this core eclass and export
> a simple API so the rest of us can use python eclass without
> having to study all the documentation for a month.
>

Ditto, I've already stopped caring about python ebuilds in Gentoo Linux.
-Jeremy

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