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Thomas,


On 06/06/10 01:04, Thomas Sachau wrote:
> Every slot and every version *should* satisfy a "dev-lang/python" dependency, but currently such
> unspecified version dependency does automaticly pull in the latest version/slot, which in case of
> python does mean python-3*, even when you have e.g. python:2.6 installed.

can you explain how that happens?



Sebastian