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 1M7eiO-0001XR-IE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 23 May 2009 00:03:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 75EB0E034D; Sat, 23 May 2009 00:03:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from yx-out-1718.google.com (yx-out-1718.google.com [74.125.44.155]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 514DFE034D for ; Sat, 23 May 2009 00:03:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yx-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 36so6528940yxh.46 for ; Fri, 22 May 2009 17:03:51 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=K0lotDXgrtlmxYhe/w2h7DPHE/3DVpnX9pm886vMBsw=; b=sQV65XsEddseAeSM+C0yF08NCZ7iihzVkkZUt5n5ociBsyL6hWn8RIQWfU8EY0EWsH W2hp+snhA8XCkmRlwb4qOAQ+nqBI1FNbWV+P8IQKKLHwaHpkeFoMPabPCHO94i6Ru+2v +n5EpgLmb2Xrm0pO5spLsHDyv1wIQ2HAm+LdM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=wkWqdnLjEK8HWK+Xo/jKx+SKR8uHcywR/33ZEKZ8vsQ+POSLLzBjS4p6gHELUefhwF /LC3OlyM4EiHp0ySDsfaW85bj/sXrAA08BMsTfbaUh0nmRER1v3MERxzZsvipbX0SZH9 Fmp6v0W+7xX5N2bMm/LjG5fMIoiA6jfbHKPI8= Received: by 10.90.49.3 with SMTP id w3mr1321109agw.60.1243037029202; Fri, 22 May 2009 17:03:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?64.89.169.193? (r169h193.dixie-net.com [64.89.169.193]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 20sm655336agb.65.2009.05.22.17.03.47 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 22 May 2009 17:03:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A173D60.2030100@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 19:03:44 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090519 SeaMonkey/1.1.16 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ARGH I uninstalled python References: <983967.82330.qm@web51306.mail.re2.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <983967.82330.qm@web51306.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 0fb48326-f346-4bf9-b7b5-6b911ae79335 X-Archives-Hash: b7c2cce12216e4e16032b2b7de05ff94 Jon Hardcastle wrote: >> > Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! > I followed this > http://blogs.pwmn.net/korkakak/2008/06/04/gentoo-i-unmerged-python-now-what > which worked - in the end. couple of caveats tho for anyone 'that follows' get python from their site as the ftp link in this article is out of date. > http://www.python.org/download/releases/ > also I initially tried 3.01 and that didn't work so i installed 2.6.2 which worked 'out of the box' i then tested with 'emerge' and am now running 'emerge -va python' > Cheers guys! > Thanks to Dale too! You may want to look into that setting for next time. I did however notice that although python is in the system set, it is not saving a copy for some reason. Anybody know why this setting is not working? FEATURES="--keep-going buildsyspkg sandbox fixpackages" Is the buildsyspkg option not valid anymore? Dale :-) :-)