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Date:      Mon, 31 Aug 2015 06:27:49 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Kubilay Kocak <koobs@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Thomas Zander <riggs@freebsd.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r395628 - in head/www: . py-pyocclient
Message-ID:  <20150831062749.GA56296@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <55E3EF7B.2010404@FreeBSD.org>
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On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 04:08:59PM +1000, Kubilay Kocak wrote:
> On 31/08/2015 3:57 PM, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 03:41:41PM +1000, Kubilay Kocak wrote:
> >> Ports should be declarative rather than imperative in respect to
> >> describing what Python versions are supported.
> >>
> >> I'm not 100% sure whether USES=python supports the a.b,a.c format
> >> (I don't think it does), but if not, the closest thing we have to
> >> stipulating "< a.d" is "-a.c".
> > 
> > If "port only supports 2.x" what's more declaratively clear than
> > python:2?
> 
> python:2 unfortunately implicitly means 'depend on the lang/python2'
> metaport, "not any version of 2.x"

Oh, that's unfortunate indeed (I was always wondering about those meta
ports and why do I have installed both python2-2_3 and python27-2.7.10).

Are there plans to get rid of this complexity?  (I'm not quoting the
rest of your mail as I don't have anything to say; you probably know
what you guys're [will be] doing about this. :)

./danfe



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