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 1MXeDf-0005aG-NU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 02 Aug 2009 16:47:35 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DB7B6E02B9; Sun, 2 Aug 2009 16:47:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAB80E02B9 for ; Sun, 2 Aug 2009 16:47:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97C493B10CA for ; Sun, 2 Aug 2009 12:47:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Sun, 02 Aug 2009 12:47:35 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: Kc8VBY8OiOAr2yNBgDUgrdM/9LSpbZlPsxMN7rhncFgS 1249231638 Received: from [192.168.31.20] (cpe-024-211-156-075.nc.res.rr.com [24.211.156.75]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EC6BA46D06 for ; Sun, 2 Aug 2009 12:47:18 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] python 3.1 safe as default python? From: Albert Hopkins To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <7284e2210908020817g1015ed0aw3086d32d7936e1a4@mail.gmail.com> References: <7284e2210908020817g1015ed0aw3086d32d7936e1a4@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2009 12:46:48 -0400 Message-Id: <1249231608.21216.2.camel@centar> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e0b97787-fe4b-4732-a4b9-60e9a70e081e X-Archives-Hash: 401a2ff16c34f17a8247d90105c1da23 On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 11:17 -0400, Doug Hunley wrote: > I noticed that my 'emerge world' wants to replace python 2.6.2 with > python 3.1 (I run ~x86). It doesn't "replace" 2.6.2. It's slotted. > Is it safe to do so or will portage (and > everything else) freak out? I would think (hope) that the python maintainers were smart enough to know whether installing Python 3 would break portage. Then again, this is Gentoo ;-) > If it is, in fact, safe are there any > extra (special) steps needed to ensure continued operation of things? > Thanks. >>From the ebuild's post-install: WARNING! Many Python modules haven't been ported yet to Python 3.*. /usr/bin/python hasn't been updated and still references your old Python installation.