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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Prevent depclean from removing Python-2.6?
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 13:15:52 +0200
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Apparently, though unproven, at 04:13 on Thursday 12 May 2011, Kevin O'Gorman 
did opine thusly:

> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Adam Carter <adamcarter3@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>> Apparently so.  It seems like it ought to pay attention to eselect.
> > >>> 
> >> >>> If I've explicitly configured my system to use 2.6 instead of 2.7,
> >> >>> removing 2.6 doesn't seem like a good thing...
> > 
> > Sounds to me like that should be made into a feature request. What does
> > the list think? If there's support I will log it.
> 
> +1  It bit me, and just seems stupid.

+1

I like Neil's suggestion - eselect can put packages it knows about into a 
specially-named set.


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