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 1M8AaS-00018L-82 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 24 May 2009 10:06:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D1A18E044E; Sun, 24 May 2009 10:05:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qy0-f115.google.com (mail-qy0-f115.google.com [209.85.221.115]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B409EE044E for ; Sun, 24 May 2009 10:05:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk13 with SMTP id 13so3940887qyk.32 for ; Sun, 24 May 2009 03:05:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:in-reply-to:references:organization:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=MnIDgsOmBTfpNHCm3yX2fcorCzeYBldzVlCjP2x3hqQ=; b=I9JuUW4mXP0Z93u6aZtabwn0jJke+s96KncLKRXYmUbwhmuqIJ3e2rrDHnAxPZ2Bzc eHWmVcrRI3hQX0yNScbFzauQM9yl+aG3Q7Pc+CQSf7QfNUEGJiuC9pnIADwAmWQgGV8L DMh1lfG7TUARwi9pAhkJZCxtm44EDMZCoit/g= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:organization :x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=m0j6dwDocB/KG+oeFHUY1UKjK7MWpU6xlWuOQgWcY8LLhLqYlvz2xM511oKhNLwTjn d1czFAfZxE2S333JEtD5JUBwMnXqtZSLQn6j4spT4QqIUHkAob2HRDP94/uEN3hvWRTZ LicHu0zosxK7GQvEmgIzTzzj6519+ICrpdzFA= Received: by 10.224.46.16 with SMTP id h16mr5678029qaf.179.1243159544495; Sun, 24 May 2009 03:05:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (201-74-136-60-sj.cpe.vivax.com.br [201.74.136.60]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 7sm7033491qwf.55.2009.05.24.03.05.42 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 24 May 2009 03:05:43 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 07:09:37 -0300 From: Jorge Morais To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ARGH I uninstalled python Message-ID: <20090524070937.02ddaadd@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090524015245.3a5e5e5b@dartworks.biz> References: <43709.23046.qm@web51309.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <20090523190850.1c529701@gmail.com> <20090524015245.3a5e5e5b@dartworks.biz> Organization: ITA X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.1 (GTK+ 2.14.7; i686-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: ab521e4d-3a7e-4352-9453-4c7da2b80819 X-Archives-Hash: cfb10fb269c6ea4004bc15433e29ccb3 On Sun, 24 May 2009 01:52:45 -0700 Keith Dart wrote: > 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" 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.