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 1M7yS6-0002Fj-0Y for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 23 May 2009 21:08:22 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5E78EE032E; Sat, 23 May 2009 21:08:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f176.google.com (mail-gx0-f176.google.com [209.85.217.176]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41597E032E for ; Sat, 23 May 2009 21:08:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk24 with SMTP id 24so2398934gxk.10 for ; Sat, 23 May 2009 14:08:20 -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=mSTp1tgrMgVwqfFiy4safKg7m8QNlnxSgJhn3IrHjZQ=; b=GIhW+Fhuj+119Sfq6oXcc8buPK+OnPz+SY11G7lk1X2zDCBjDeP6gYrek7Blar6DQ6 raf/ds9SP+osdZhpLdzO7y6MIT5OtYUogFaWgbIhpcE1qBsV7wY3iLk9kjf+SU7R3aXF Tj+tNSq+a6xV0YhSKN+PtyRWdiUez8SXtHaf4= 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=evkBhX+w/Aosa8a6jJoiAn16B9ZMSuKD7jAipHrK+FkW9QWbbNXUTqWGahSSwKjoKB HXN7HXXBCLbZtN5dh7SFHpPqV3jfew2+LXd6LTNsgd7ipZlb2x0x2cn2/b7xx3vQ1Xwq SyfMx5QUPBzce7Z0i7jhNwYP+jt17qrztmThk= Received: by 10.90.50.5 with SMTP id x5mr3829212agx.109.1243112896138; Sat, 23 May 2009 14:08:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?64.89.169.194? (r169h194.dixie-net.com [64.89.169.194]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 30sm10681027agc.69.2009.05.23.14.08.14 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 23 May 2009 14:08:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A1865BA.4060505@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 16:08:10 -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> <4A173D60.2030100@gmail.com> <4A175266.3040703@gmail.com> <4A17D9CB.5020205@gmail.com> <4A17E50E.7090307@gmail.com> <20090523210226.0eeeb5f4@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20090523210226.0eeeb5f4@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 36f02a57-8ce8-47f3-8a67-860b1a4cb6aa X-Archives-Hash: 5dd229fc2ada027ab4fdf515d9a178ee Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 23 May 2009 06:59:10 -0500, Dale wrote: > > >> Hmmm, I think someone needs to rethink the system set then. After all, >> portage does not work well without python. It should keep a binary copy >> but it should also warn you if you are typing without your thinking cap >> on. >> > > Portage is not in system, only the virtual. That can be satisfied > by Paludis, which does not need Python. > > > But if a person, me or the OP, is using portage then python needs to be in there. After all, isn't portage supported by Gentoo still? Are we all supposed to switch to Paludis so we will get a warning before borking our system? Dale :-) :-)