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 1QMrhR-0004BM-39 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 19 May 2011 01:06:51 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 77B5C1C10C; Thu, 19 May 2011 01:03:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mail.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.10]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 427691C10C for ; Thu, 19 May 2011 01:03:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE551DEC25 for ; Thu, 19 May 2011 02:03:47 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([192.168.54.25]) by localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id bJWepeTRoWiW for ; Thu, 19 May 2011 02:03:47 +0100 (BST) Received: from wstn.localnet (unknown [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F3A9DEC22 for ; Thu, 19 May 2011 02:03:47 +0100 (BST) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] portage python USE flags. Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 02:03:46 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.37-gentoo-r4; KDE/4.6.2; x86_64; ; ) References: <4DD464A8.6050502@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4DD464A8.6050502@gmail.com> 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 Message-Id: <201105190203.46392.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 5c4120b17fed7e5a553a722913d86ef8 On Thursday 19 May 2011 01:30:32 Dale wrote: > I know portage needs python but check out the USE flags. Both python2 > and python3 are disabled. If you check emerge --info you may find, as I do, that just python is enabled, without reference to the version. In that case I suggest you shouldn't tamper with it! -- Rgds Peter