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Date:      Fri, 2 Mar 2018 08:17:45 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Kubilay Kocak <koobs@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        yuri@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, python <python@freebsd.org>, "Tobias C. Berner" <tcberner@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r463374 - head/security/nyx
Message-ID:  <20180302081745.GA13658@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <531069af-c0fc-1b2c-0c91-52cd73ba001e@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201803020651.w226ptn3091275@repo.freebsd.org> <6f698e1f-a5d5-2cd7-b2b7-c288a3c65bb6@FreeBSD.org> <6dd4b973-fbcb-8fa8-fb3e-1cece416898f@freebsd.org> <531069af-c0fc-1b2c-0c91-52cd73ba001e@FreeBSD.org>

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On 3/2/18 6:40 PM, Yuri wrote:
> If the port can only be used as an app, as opposed to library, multiple
> flavors aren't needed. All users care about is an executable. It doesn't
> matter what python version is used.

That's what sane^Wyou and I would think. :-)

On Fri, Mar 02, 2018 at 06:57:51PM +1100, Kubilay Kocak wrote:
> 2) The 'app vs library' distinction is not sound here. It wasn't sound
> for python package prefixing in the past either.

It was always sound and meaningful, but FreeBSD Python cabal had decided
otherwise (and adopted that stupid "prefix everything with py-" rule which
is counterintuitive and makes looking for programs harder).  But oh well,
we've argued over this years ago Kubilay.

./danfe



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