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From: Mike Edenfield <kutulu@kutulu.org>
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On 8/3/2009 5:14 PM, Remy Blank wrote:
> Mike Edenfield wrote:
>> I dunno what I did, but I've managed to break python shell scripts,
>> which of course is playing havoc with portage.
>
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=279915
>
> The whole issue seems to be handled quite strangely IMO. You would think
> breaking Python for all ~x86 is a major offense...

Ah, thanks.  Usually my google searches pick up stuff from 
bugs.gentoo.org but this time it didn't, guess it was too new :\

And yes, reverting /usr/bin/python to a symlink instead of a shell 
script does solve the problem.  I'll just follow the bug for now and 
mask off eselect-python.

--Mike