From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MzVeH-0004on-7z for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 18 Oct 2009 13:18:14 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 48B25E08A5; Sun, 18 Oct 2009 13:18:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FC9DE08A5 for ; Sun, 18 Oct 2009 13:18:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1MzVeB-0007rX-08 for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:18:07 +0200 Received: from ip68-231-21-207.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.231.21.207]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:18:06 +0200 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-231-21-207.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:18:06 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Warning Message After Emerge Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 13:17:38 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20091017190215.9064c4fa.frank.peters@comcast.net> <20091018000158.caf95fa1.frank.peters@comcast.net> <20091018041913.GA32702@crud.chemoelectric.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-231-21-207.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.133 (House of Butterflies) Sender: news Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 2702a760-6a8c-47a3-8832-264cbd347c1e X-Archives-Hash: 40944017a4bf2445a2a3f0ea317dc294 Barry Schwartz posted on Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:19:14 -0500 as excerpted: > Frank Peters skribis: >> I have python-3.1.1 and python-2.6.3 installed. It was not my >> intention to install both; portage/emerge just did it automatically.=20 >> By the time I noticed this dual installation my system was in place fo= r >> some time and running without problems, so I just left things that way= . >> Python-updater (run without options) doesn't report any anomaly. >>=20 >> What python version should I be using as the system python, 2.6.3 or >> 3.1.1? Should I delete the older version and run python-updater? >=20 > I haven't been following this conversation, but almost surely you do no= t > want python 3 as your system python. It is a brand new dialect and > almost nothing will work with it. :) That's correct. As I wrote in a different post, unless you have=20 something specific that needs python-3, I'd actually recommend not=20 installing it. And almost without-a-doubt, you don't want it as your=20 system python. eselect python list, and make sure that's set for=20 2.6.whatever. If you're running a full ~arch system, that, and possibly=20 rebuilding a specific package or two, should be all you need to do -- if=20 it was working before, I'd not argue with it. However, the chances of=20 you actually needing 3.x for anything is going to be pretty low for=20 another six months or so at least, and likely longer, if I don't miss my=20 guess. And you'll likely save yourself worrying about a few bugs as=20 packages upgrade in the mean time. So yes, I'd probably mask >=3D3.0.0,=20 unmerge the python3 you have installed, and then run python updater, but=20 it's up to you. But I'd DEFINITELY ensure I had a 2.6 (or 2.5 for those=20 still on it) set as the system python, and run the updater with that set,= =20 at a minimum. FWIW, I do have 3.x masked and not on my system, here. I test lots of=20 stuff, but have no interest in worrying myself about python upgrade=20 bugs. Hopefully, by the time I do need it for something, many of the=20 bugs from the 3.x upgrades have already been taken care of without me=20 ever noticing them, since I was still locked on 2.6. --=20 Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman