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 <gentoo-user+bounces-95741-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org>) id 1M8Kwe-0008KJ-98 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 24 May 2009 21:09:25 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 26082E050D; Sun, 24 May 2009 21:09:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from yw-out-1718.google.com (yw-out-1718.google.com [74.125.46.158]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08E00E050D for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Sun, 24 May 2009 21:09:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yw-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 5so10110931ywm.46 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Sun, 24 May 2009 14:09:21 -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=Jx9vTiyAXqag3bsD/z64ZjtgEqeLCb/ySeE1w4ZaVrU=; b=CyAnqZXp1+xPcnYZeaxwO3AC5Ll8/CHoh4Dhh/nvDv11pG9W92eHrmilfWDehSS4U0 0gVWI8Z4u1GllzfnSMxT4lc8FM3gPTRIeJo/kZ5c+Jf92OcaPe6b7uXlvkK+519awg80 Ve5g/7LmF2yyO146mxVjXzYTcAglqk6OBXeCQ= 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=k0jzCBicbsB6XY3bHgLdlfFbaku2/7Hkqdy9pSTAYMhN6uY7acRZ2YSy8kBs3ZFkP6 sKuRI5Rey/0h7mgof4xBxK1S8SFulBRx/7sR9UJIX2Vu7NkDMqUUoRao2YxAvWZAwuJs GrFi4Zmh9LuQ6Pd7J2gxlRG76+8Zls5OflsZs= Received: by 10.90.70.15 with SMTP id s15mr2554499aga.1.1243199361754; Sun, 24 May 2009 14:09:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?64.89.164.180? (r164h180.dixie-net.com [64.89.164.180]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 38sm4792044aga.1.2009.05.24.14.09.19 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 24 May 2009 14:09:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A19B77C.4040006@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 16:09:16 -0500 From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> 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: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> 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> <4A193AC3.9020002@gmail.com> <20090524152625.72179f44@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> <200905241822.05300.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <20090524214111.697ca579@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20090524214111.697ca579@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a16c6c74-fe4e-4f43-887f-0eb2c0b52d97 X-Archives-Hash: 7a264f03bf12600724be0c819c6594e6 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 24 May 2009 18:22:05 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > >>> Not exactly, buildsyspkg does the same as it always did, but @system >>> has changed. This cold have happened at any time as there was never a >>> need for python to be in @system,because it's a dependency of >>> portage. >>> >> That may well be the way it IS, but it certainly is not the way it >> SHOULD BE. The only sane way to do this is: >> >> if (pkgmgr=portage) >> python in @system >> else >> python !in system >> end >> > > That's not particularly sane, because it addresses only one special case, > others may arise. IMO the sane approach, as I said some posts > ago, is for buildsyspkg to build packages for everything in @system and > their dependencies. If you can't do "emerge -eK @system", buildsyspkg > has failed to do anything useful. > > > That's what I am trying to say. Thanks. Being someone who only speaks English, I ain't very good at it. LOL It's the dependencies that is not working here. Portage has to have python to work so leaving that out is a bad idea. Ask the OP about that. Now can someone explain this problem to the devs so they can fix this? Dale :-) :-)