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 1M8KVW-0008ES-JX for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 24 May 2009 20:41:22 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 31B32E0528; Sun, 24 May 2009 20:41:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED508E0528 for ; Sun, 24 May 2009 20:41:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from krikkit.digimed.co.uk (krikkit.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0E8BB994D6 for ; Sun, 24 May 2009 21:41:20 +0100 (BST) Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 21:41:11 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ARGH I uninstalled python Message-ID: <20090524214111.697ca579@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200905241822.05300.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> References: <983967.82330.qm@web51306.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <4A193AC3.9020002@gmail.com> <20090524152625.72179f44@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> <200905241822.05300.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.1cvs64 (GTK+ 2.16.1; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 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: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/k85vBybajDf8P.hRAbfLSHw"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 59714546-a2df-4c72-a02d-47897b6fe71f X-Archives-Hash: d9c53d34848662634638ecd4f1d137b7 --Sig_/k85vBybajDf8P.hRAbfLSHw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 24 May 2009 18:22:05 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Not exactly, buildsyspkg does the same as it always did, but @system > > has changed. This cold have happened at any time as there was never a > > need for python to be in @system,because it's a dependency of > > portage. =20 >=20 > That may well be the way it IS, but it certainly is not the way it > SHOULD BE. The only sane way to do this is: >=20 > if (pkgmgr=3Dportage) > python in @system > else > python !in system > end That's not particularly sane, because it addresses only one special case, others may arise. IMO the sane approach, as I said some posts ago, is for buildsyspkg to build packages for everything in @system and their dependencies. If you can't do "emerge -eK @system", buildsyspkg has failed to do anything useful. --=20 Neil Bothwick "MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten years of careful development." --Sig_/k85vBybajDf8P.hRAbfLSHw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkoZsO4ACgkQum4al0N1GQOrTgCgn0SJM3ghNr+eCcl9vrwYWsoA GegAn1r408QD0N1LHM7BqTGx6RbHYFHC =vwZc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/k85vBybajDf8P.hRAbfLSHw--