Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Stabilization of Python 3.1

[Francesco R <vivo75@gmail.com>]

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On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 2:42 AM, Alistair Bush <ali_bush@gentoo.org> wrote:

> >
> > Someone here want people install paludis? because when I've switched to
> > python 3.0 just out of curiosity, it broke totally that python written
> > package manager who is portage.
> > So another package manager was needed to re-install a sane portage.
>
> No it wasn't. [1]  You just didn't know that ( which is completely
> understandable ).  Just as you must not have understood the implications of
> emerge -C python:2.6.  I don't want to be mean but would you like to
> enlighten
> us as to how you managed to unemerge python:2.6 while using python3 when
> portage didn't work with python3.
>
> [1]
> http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/default-linux/amd64/dev-lang/python-2.6.2-
> r1.tbz2
>
> I did not unmerge <python-3, I was in hard multitasking mode so I could not
reconstruct how it broken so badly, also tinderbox packages work better if
the CFLAGS used are the same, which is not always true.


> >
> > Still, do you really want to have it in tree as stable? Really?
>
> Yes really.
>
> what said in the previous message which you snipped, eselect python should
forget about >=python-3 is still valid IMHO

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