Re: new pkg_rr to semi-avoid python version lossage, recording python versions

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Leonardo Taccari <leot%NetBSD.org@localhost> writes:

> Hello Greg,
>
> Greg Troxel writes:
>> [...]
>> I wonder why PYTHON_VERSION or similar isn't recorded as a variable in
>> the binary package.  Is that just because it never occured to people, or
>> is there a reason not to?  Which variable should be recorded?  It would
>> be nice if the recorded variable could be set to force the same version
>> of a multiversion package.
>
> Isn't that recorded via MULTI list, e.g.:
>
>  % pkg_info -Q MULTI mercurial
>  PYTHON_VERSION_REQD=27
>  % pkg_info -Q MULTI youtube-dl
>  PYTHON_VERSION_REQD=37

Thanks - it is indeed.  I didn't see it, perhaps expecting to find it at
top level -- but I see the point of how it is.