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 1MEevC-0008TN-1t for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:42:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A3C5DE0449; Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:41:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f213.google.com (mail-ew0-f213.google.com [209.85.219.213]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69FB8E0449 for ; Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:41:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy9 with SMTP id 9so1366546ewy.34 for ; Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:41:28 -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=uU0w56AETn4Npe6grM3aCoLkPC2LPF4Mzpe7KXaZ1u8=; b=ru0uEc6gpIHDd6Rf0dReVvJS11pZKjKg89iq3uVLM9AeqjK1865vYAgUyYaH6pzo7o chLyBIXF/9FVXtrdUxDEgumHrChjaYEw//zdwd+sMi1taukVXUGYWBVu+7iVeXPr45Zj e5oiK4rt4vpy8DRBSkWSeYCTnsvkoYhQ3iIdQ= 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=B5olgEjBwD98tysBNyJqvKyYyonqOW6NEvH0I3q6LPi0rLSRaUrZXVKldOqgFEkXPF C6sYZWKvW90dor8FAH9kmM5QI3GmJ1mJlmzEu1sQ9WEg83KwsVxaR1Tl2uzpuqz+dcHg UQE/PfSnvWLvk0h5IFIlKyhazr7DyAPFNgGYA= Received: by 10.210.133.2 with SMTP id g2mr2752453ebd.65.1244706088910; Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:41:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (dustpuppy.is.co.za [196.14.169.11]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 10sm787375eyd.52.2009.06.11.00.41.27 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:41:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: PyQt4-4.5 and pykde4-4.2.4 blockers Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:39:56 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.4 (Linux/2.6.29-gentoo-r5; KDE/4.2.4; x86_64; ; ) References: <200906102125.12330.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: 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-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200906110939.56894.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 1ae60ae4-a460-4ec7-96b3-1a11d81106d5 X-Archives-Hash: 45d51be2466f9e9b61de44eda8ad272d On Thursday 11 June 2009 05:18:18 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 06/11/2009 06:11 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > I recommend putting "-python" in your make.conf followed by "emerge > > -auDN world" and then a depclean along with revdev-rebuild. > > You might have to enable python in a few packages after that though and > disable it in others. In my case: > > echo "dev-libs/libxml2 python" >> /etc/portage/package.use > > Just follow the messages that tell you to enable the python USE flag in > specific packages. It's much cleaner to enable it only in packages that > actually need it rather than globally (which drags along PyQt and PyKDE.) So is it more or less correct to say that USE=python gives you python plugins for most packages? There could be other uses of course, but is that the most common? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com