[CFT] lang/python becoming a python binary wrapper

[David Demelier]

2013/8/19 Marcus von Appen <mva at freebsd.org>:
> On, Sun Aug 18, 2013, The BSD Dreamer wrote:
>
> [...]
>> What wasn't clear was that this applied to everybody, whether they knowingly
>> installed lang/python2* or lang/python3*, or not.  Since, installing a port
>> that wants the python results in lang/python27 being installed by default
>> (and still does.)
>>
>> So, when I tried updating www/firefox with portmaster this morning, it broke
>> python for everything by updating only lang/python27 for me.  What happens to
>> the many other fresh systems when somebody builds their first port that pulls
>> in the default python, which is lang/python27, but that's not enough for
>> satisfy the dependency?
>
> This was a serious issue in my tests, causing quite some problems and
> which was fixed later on that day. It should not be a problem anymore at
> the moment.
>
> Cheers
> Marcus

Thanks for this work, it's really great. Now I think we should get in
touch with the ruby team to do the same?

Cheers,

-- 
Demelier David