----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Kofler" <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> To: devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, October 10, 2016 4:14:30 PM Subject: Re: including EOL and vulnerable software in Fedora > Your explanation does not solve the inherent contradiction between: >> churchyard (in the FESCo tracker): >> | These packages are not intended to be used as dependencies for other >> | packages (such as we have some "compat" packages when another package >> | needs an older version of a library), hence we want to stop people from >> | requiring them >and: >> Nick Coghlan (in this thread): >>> The addition of these packages to Fedora means that as soon as you do >>> "dnf install tox", those runtimes are all brought in automatically via >>> Recommends tox is THE main reason for multiple interpreters in Fedora. So no the comments are not contradictory but it seems there is a lack of (technical) understanding of the actual situation here, but I may be wrong here, so please correct me if you think so. tox is not just any package, so maybe it is not stressed out I guess from the original descriptions. This is the work in progress (posted also to one of the tickets) for the fedora developers portal where use cases are explained[0]. [0] https://github.com/hroncok/content/blob/c893f742cad6458ba010748b3e1683dba5671b84/tech/languages/python/multiple-pythons.md Regards, Charalampos Stratakis Associate Software Engineer Python Maintenance Team, Red Hat _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
