Re: [gentoo-user] did python-r1 improve user experience?

[Bruce Hill <daddy@happypenguincomputers.com>]

On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 10:11:59PM -0400, gottlieb@nyu.edu wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 27 2013, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> 
> > Making things "just work" is complex when trying to juggle 6 or more
> > supported versions/implementations of python.
> 
> Indeed.
> 
> > We have tried to explain the magic make.conf lines in the Python user guide.
> >
> > https://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/Python/python-r1/user-guide.xml
> >
> > We also try to make sure that most users never have to touch
> > PYTHON_TARGETS, etc; the default values provided by your profile are
> > set up to allow *stable* python2.7 and python3.2 to work properly.
> 
> > ~arch users are expected to read the docs. ^_^
> 
> I am a ~amd64 user and I just read the user-guide. :-)
> I do not see any action items for my system; but do see a large number
> of reinstalls proposed by emerge
> 
> I do not change any python variables in make.conf so emerge --info shows
> PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7"
> PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_2"
> 
> a recursive grep -i for python in /etc/portage yields only
> ./package.use/imaging-pillow:5:virtual/python-imaging -python_targets_python3_2
> 
> So I basically have the default except for the imaging/pillow business.
> 
> I note that update world wants to rebuild a bunch of packages (the
> entire output is below).  Some are qt-related others involve
> PYTHON_TARGETS.
> 
> Does this mean that I can let the 44 packages / 38 reinstalls update occur
> and expect a running system to result?  It is unusual, but I realize not
> unprecedented, to have so many reinstalls and I would like to confirm
> that this is expected.

I don't remember seeing your emerge output; but if this has to do with
pyton-exec you're not in the boat alone ... it is terribly fubared atm.
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