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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] All ~arch users: do not update python
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On 08/02/2010 06:20 PM, Albert Hopkins wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 03:53 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>> Updating python to 2.6.5_p20100801 will break portage.  emerge will stop 
>> working after that and there's no information on how to recover from 
>> that right now (because emerge won't work, you can't downgrade to the 
>> previous, working python version.)
>>
>> Bug for this issue: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330937
>>
> 
> Must not affect all users because it works for me:
> 
> 
> [Orbitrap(84) ~]$ epm -q python
> python-2.5.4-r4
> python-3.1.2_p20100801
> python-2.6.5_p20100801

Do you have the "python3" useflag set?  If so, emerge should be using
python3 not your eselected version.