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 1M9QGH-0002Gg-Cw for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 27 May 2009 21:02:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6A503E0642; Wed, 27 May 2009 21:02:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qy0-f182.google.com (mail-qy0-f182.google.com [209.85.221.182]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F708E0642 for ; Wed, 27 May 2009 21:02:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk12 with SMTP id 12so1321596qyk.32 for ; Wed, 27 May 2009 14:02:06 -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=soRfbwTLCW6qlUkZmplmvp6u7LspznLyaQTKuUikoQY=; b=fmpmecvqzaCktp858bclTPKT7QKdBuowXFlh0jugQ2Fi655Pxb2BXO8mRgUXrU7TSa 0L5gZaTBylls7+W9otfxggEm5e20+FpK3TW4gu6bC5WjI7HD5jhMiwXROjp4GsmCBAY8 VEPety589z9HBroVnQl3YNm/hyNfDatRIPwwU= 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=U2CvLaE26r+XCN5CdF5QKSG+REiia1Hr05o1LyjglpuZT7i1kAQs2sC0Y6Zne50n+O AsJY3OeleW+sT4t8TReUZVYzGQvELpsj46vtEcPAOz31QlLI2usRzoFmxplrJ4fbOTa1 LemBJsWOiGS+5VZg32NtwlH3ORfH2Shs15cpc= Received: by 10.224.32.73 with SMTP id b9mr644045qad.11.1243458126859; Wed, 27 May 2009 14:02:06 -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 5sm301799qwh.14.2009.05.27.14.02.04 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 27 May 2009 14:02:05 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 18:06:05 -0300 From: Jorge Morais To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ARGH I uninstalled python Message-ID: <20090527180605.52dc4f2e@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: References: <43709.23046.qm@web51309.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <20090523190850.1c529701@gmail.com> <20090527094938.4b31aa9b@gmail.com> 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: dccfdb9f-5cd6-475e-920b-9e0ec13542d7 X-Archives-Hash: e5df5a7f9ae62e71462de9d4fb0703ae On Wed, 27 May 2009 16:28:35 -0400 Wyatt Epp wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Jorge Morais > wrote: > > > I should mention that you should be careful about deleting any files - > > and qfile is not a 100% guarantee that the file does not come from a > > Portage-installed package. For example, in my system Python was > > installed by Portage, and > > $ file /usr/bin/python > > /usr/bin/python: symbolic link to `python2.5' > > , yet > > $ qfile /usr/bin/python > > > > > You know, I wonder if that's not a bug? There is no eselect module for > setting your python version, and there's no entry for that symlink in the > CONTENTS for these packages. If I understand the role of that file, that > symlink really shouldn't exist without being listed there. I don't know enough about Portage to comment, but undoubtedly I (as a user) would like these files to be registered by Portage.