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 1M89hC-0004yp-2z for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 24 May 2009 09:08:43 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B06CBE0341; Sun, 24 May 2009 09:08:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f165.google.com (mail-ew0-f165.google.com [209.85.219.165]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 742FAE0341 for ; Sun, 24 May 2009 09:08:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy9 with SMTP id 9so2452666ewy.34 for ; Sun, 24 May 2009 02:08:38 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=N1QOI9dJY6abDlpeJd3XceFRfN5YSn5ANpWJneh7eWg=; b=w3QgkSDDTxd+6wHTHoDcauL0o436wXi4W4jOowIjQMZZPU0NT2ZFdCg1VJoNpOWXFf 4JSp9mLdzlaYIcIzkOds2fqUxwRRIVNzqE1QJXJd1bVQVgkHK8jlxqmHW8nhplwR+QXR JOyhA87zWukH49SLA1Ol7XtokEFYRbwAQrzUs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=cUbDd8NT9kvHE5Om1bBMi77QCpazt5ynoQiqDqWokvY6D+5IWZgFmhn2xpKJ7OEIg2 7uxgmCqTUdZ0kvlB3GeZz4/35CmLDV2myFX31J5M4wWNdoWCGkOkjFo5TB8DQQw4Zyki /1ktifxiOWsrh+YiN2u0QsdJdbKOeaP0pBHbQ= Received: by 10.211.199.13 with SMTP id b13mr3251345ebq.88.1243156118924; Sun, 24 May 2009 02:08:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-153-19-rrdg-esr-2.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.153.19]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 28sm5561669eyg.34.2009.05.24.02.08.38 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 24 May 2009 02:08:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ARGH I uninstalled python Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 11:07:13 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.3 (Linux/2.6.29-gentoo-r4; KDE/4.2.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <983967.82330.qm@web51306.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <4A17E50E.7090307@gmail.com> <20090523210226.0eeeb5f4@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20090523210226.0eeeb5f4@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> 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="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200905241107.13649.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 06e2155c-78fb-4b52-aeea-cad085987a43 X-Archives-Hash: c240b9728719e6599bdb997c703b0ed0 On Saturday 23 May 2009 22:02:26 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 23 May 2009 06:59:10 -0500, Dale wrote: > > Hmmm, I think someone needs to rethink the system set then. After all, > > portage does not work well without python. It should keep a binary copy > > but it should also warn you if you are typing without your thinking cap > > on. > > Portage is not in system, only the virtual. That can be satisfied > by Paludis, which does not need Python. Lucky for you, I know your sense of humour by now :-) Doesn't help portage users though, and portage is still the default package manager on Gentoo. I don't see that changing any time soon, if ever. Besides, unless you do it manually, you need portage to install paludis, right? Without python, you don't get paludis. Either way, it's a bug. portage supports inheriting multiple parent profiles. One approach would be to add a new collection of profiles in addition to the existing base/, default/ and targets/ - called say pkgmgr. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com