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Date:      Sun, 25 Aug 2013 22:50:52 +0200
From:      David Demelier <demelier.david@gmail.com>
To:        Marcus von Appen <mva@freebsd.org>, The BSD Dreamer <beastie@tardisi.com>, python@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [CFT] lang/python becoming a python binary wrapper
Message-ID:  <CAO%2BPfDc=mU-LzWRJz-AzYy=F=ddtKQXadfJW0QM5ZkYUSbva6A@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20130819091635.GA1251@medusa.sysfault.org>
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2013/8/19 Marcus von Appen <mva@freebsd.org>:
> On, Sun Aug 18, 2013, The BSD Dreamer wrote:
>
> [...]
>> What wasn't clear was that this applied to everybody, whether they knowingly
>> installed lang/python2* or lang/python3*, or not.  Since, installing a port
>> that wants the python results in lang/python27 being installed by default
>> (and still does.)
>>
>> So, when I tried updating www/firefox with portmaster this morning, it broke
>> python for everything by updating only lang/python27 for me.  What happens to
>> the many other fresh systems when somebody builds their first port that pulls
>> in the default python, which is lang/python27, but that's not enough for
>> satisfy the dependency?
>
> This was a serious issue in my tests, causing quite some problems and
> which was fixed later on that day. It should not be a problem anymore at
> the moment.
>
> Cheers
> Marcus

Thanks for this work, it's really great. Now I think we should get in
touch with the ruby team to do the same?

Cheers,

-- 
Demelier David



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