Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

[Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>]

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On Sun, 12 Apr 2015 20:38:17 -0500, »Q« wrote:

> > It's not a bad idea to manage the PYTHON_TARGETS,
> > PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET, and RUBY_TARGET variables if you *need* a
> > specific version of python or ruby. If you do not, I would say it is
> > bad. These are set in the profile so that the maintainers can decide
> > when to update to a new stable version. Since all of the various
> > python and ruby libraries are installed from source, it's generally a
> > good idea to wait for the maintainers to stabilize a certain version
> > since that means the library support is also good.  
> 
> How can I find out whether the profile is setting those variables?

By removing USE="-*". At the moment it doesn't matter which profile you
use or what it sets as you are then telling portage to ignore all its
settings, even the critical ones. As portage evolves and the devs update
the profiles to keep in line, your system will be come gradually more
broken, as happened when PYTHON_TARGET variables were introduced.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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