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Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 16:09:16 -0500
From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ARGH I uninstalled python
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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

:-)  :-)