Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strange python-updater error

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Jacques Montier wrote:
> Le 09/06/2010 15:17, walt a gentiment tapote:
>    
>> On 06/09/2010 03:32 AM, Jacques Montier wrote:
>>      
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> After upgrading world, i installed python-3.1.2-r3 with already
>>> installed python-2.6.4-r1
>>> As recommended, i ran python-updater ; so python-updater added some
>>> packages to the list as :
>>> app-office/openoffice-bin:0
>>> dev-lang/-MERGING-python:2.5
>>> ...
>>>
>>> The output is an error about  dev-lang/-MERGING-python:2.5 as invalid
>>> atom !
>>> Where does that "-MERGING-" come from ?
>>>        
>> Which version of python are you actually using now?  AFAIK the portage
>> utilities
>> don't yet work correctly if you are using python-3.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>      
> I use python2.6, but both 2.6 and 3.1 are installed.
>
> Jacques
>
>    

Just for the record, installing python 3.1 is fine but DON'T switch to 
it.  Very little works with it right now.  There was a HUGE discussion 
about this on -dev.  It's confusing because python 3.1 is stable but you 
can't switch to it yet since not much is ready for it.

The best thing to do is to mask python 3.1 until you can actually switch 
to it.  That is what most devs are recommending.  If you don't have 
something that has to have it, mask it for now.

Dale

:-)  :-)