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 1Rgfoc-0006kh-1X for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:00:22 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5901A21C0C4; Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:00:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f181.google.com (mail-wi0-f181.google.com [209.85.212.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E6B021C0AB for ; Fri, 30 Dec 2011 16:59:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wibhq2 with SMTP id hq2so8267605wib.40 for ; Fri, 30 Dec 2011 08:59:04 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; 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; bh=RHd+G/uj9VQyIE2fj397itSYHnfQqYW1Vbm4DdMWVmg=; b=ns3V8ltz6X4B7bstSia1zMh2Gmu4ut/66adPGrzJxtVrMLTuob8igyGvZh3vRu3Ac9 NMh4+zfyO8A8SA456/WTY+B7e/WLuviXdZq8Kv0e68Z70ihGpHYRSYeV4d2w6+mnvcIi 7oGIT6p2fysEBbBWKC4eXPIOsDp7prQayAVBc= Received: by 10.181.13.179 with SMTP id ez19mr87639116wid.11.1325264344713; Fri, 30 Dec 2011 08:59:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from rohan.example.com (196-215-2-107.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.215.2.107]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id z5sm93723158wix.5.2011.12.30.08.59.02 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 30 Dec 2011 08:59:03 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:58:47 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is it safe to get rid of python 2.x? Message-ID: <20111230185847.43c4ba80@rohan.example.com> In-Reply-To: <4EFDE0F5.4020006@gmail.com> References: <4EFDE0F5.4020006@gmail.com> Organization: Internet Solutions X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.8 (GTK+ 2.24.4; x86_64-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: 465b6e8d-b1a2-4d2f-8712-d0da56cf293b X-Archives-Hash: 1407f0c5add76357559a571eec04e8e3 On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:04:05 +0100 Jarry wrote: > Hi, > after upgrading glib today I noticed new message from > revdep-rebuild: > ----- > Not unmerging package dev-lang/python-2.7.2-r3 since there is no valid > reason for Portage to unmerge currently used Python interpreter. > ----- > > And it removed nothing, despite of "Number removed:1" message. > This is definitely something new, as I quickly compared it > with another box where no such a message was printed. > > So my question is: can we finally switch to python3.1 and > uninstall python2.7? No. When it is *safe* to do so there will be all manner of news, blog and list posts from the devs announcing that the time has come. This hasn't happened. I don't follow why you asked the question given the data to hand though. Portage told you that revdep-rebuild listed python-2.7 as a candidate for deletion, and portage refused to do it, quite correctly. -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com