<div dir="ltr">On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 02:31, Russell Jones <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:russell.jones@physics.ox.ac.uk">russell.jones@physics.ox.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">> If so, I would be strongly against that. "port select" is exclusively for a user's convenience; no port should change how it installs or functions based on what the user may or may not have "port select"ed.<br>
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</div>I can kind of see why you wouldn't want this on principle, but could you elaborate? Why should a user have to select which version of python they want for every package, when in the majority of cases the same version will be desired? Having a default doesn't exclude exceptions.<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>When the user uses port select to change the default Python, what should happen to all of these? How do you plan to implement it? What if there isn't a version of something installed this way for the selected Python variant?</div>
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