Re: [gentoo-user] ARGH I uninstalled python

[Jorge Morais <please.no.spam.here@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 24 May 2009 01:52:45 -0700
Keith Dart <keith@dartworks.biz> wrote:

> On Sat, 23 May 2009 19:08:50 -0300
> Jorge Morais <please.no.spam.here@gmail.com> 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"
You don't seem to have taken into account that he has installed
multiple vanilla python versions *manually* (with ./configure, make, and
make install as root), to /usr, and then installed Python with Portage.