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 1M89SI-0002KO-Rr for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 24 May 2009 08:53:18 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D3BCFE037B; Sun, 24 May 2009 08:53:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from aplus.dartworks.biz (aplus.dartworks.biz [206.225.82.180]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5202E037B for ; Sun, 24 May 2009 08:53:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dartworks.biz (adsl-75-36-231-99.dsl.pltn13.sbcglobal.net [::ffff:75.36.231.99]) (AUTH: CRAM-MD5 mercury) by aplus.dartworks.biz with esmtp; Sun, 24 May 2009 01:53:16 -0700 id 0037C00B.4A190AFD.00006CF1 Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 01:52:45 -0700 From: Keith Dart To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ARGH I uninstalled python Message-ID: <20090524015245.3a5e5e5b@dartworks.biz> In-Reply-To: <20090523190850.1c529701@gmail.com> References: <43709.23046.qm@web51309.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <20090523190850.1c529701@gmail.com> Organization: Dartworks X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.1 (GTK+ 2.16.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 30fc560d-f029-4701-a236-6ed0cebc1ece X-Archives-Hash: 7605c735f4f77bd33f995c06268d869b On Sat, 23 May 2009 19:08:50 -0300 Jorge Morais wrote: > Now, I do have concerns about your system having remains of multiple > python installations. > > Any person with python knowledge can give an opinion on whether this > is dangerous? And what is the easiest way to clean the mess? Python is designed to work with multiple versions installed. Therefore, the ebuild is also slotted so you can have multiple versions installed. Use "eselect python" to choose which one you want to use as the default. Also, don't forget to run python-updater after recent changes that installed Python 2.6 for you. You can always unmerge the specific old version afterwards. e.g. "emerge --unmerge =dev-lang/python-2.5.4-r2" HTH, Keith -- -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Keith Dart public key: ID: 19017044 =====================================================================