python-exec: solutions for package conflicts, and making it easier on users

[robbat2]

Running into another system today with the fun python-exec block, I realise that while it has been discussed on the Gentoo mailing lists, and the forums slightly, there's been hardly any posts about it in the blog stream.

I'm not going to go into what caused it, but rather solutions for package conflicts in the short term, and also the long-term.

Comments

[ext_2269475]

Couldn't you have the depend line be something like ||(>=dev-python/python-exec-10000:$SLOT !

[prizident]

On the subject: I didn;t get how "emerge -1 dev-python/python-exec" did resolve the problem, isn't it exactly the same as 'emerge -pv dev-lang/python-exec' (except --pretend).

PS that gentoo stuff became way tooo complicated. that started after the 'separate /usr impossible', 'everebody needs /run', 'noone needs hal', 'noone needs kde3', etc. now I see some insane depsolving problem, which I as a user would have never figured out how to deal with.