Re: [gentoo-user] did python-r1 improve user experience?

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On 01/11/2013 15:41, gottlieb@nyu.edu wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 31 2013, gottlieb@nyu.edu wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, Oct 27 2013, Mike Gilbert wrote:
>>
>>> Making things "just work" is complex when trying to juggle 6 or more
>>> supported versions/implementations of python.
>>
>> Indeed.
>>
>>> We have tried to explain the magic make.conf lines in the Python user guide.
>>>
>>> https://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/Python/python-r1/user-guide.xml
>>>
>>> We also try to make sure that most users never have to touch
>>> PYTHON_TARGETS, etc; the default values provided by your profile are
>>> set up to allow *stable* python2.7 and python3.2 to work properly.
>>
>>> ~arch users are expected to read the docs. ^_^
>>
>> I am a ~amd64 user and I just read the user-guide. :-)
>> I do not see any action items for my system; but do see a large number
>> of reinstalls proposed by emerge
>>
>> I do not change any python variables in make.conf so emerge --info shows
>> PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7"
>> PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_2"
>>
>> a recursive grep -i for python in /etc/portage yields only
>> ./package.use/imaging-pillow:5:virtual/python-imaging -python_targets_python3_2
>>
>> So I basically have the default except for the imaging/pillow business.
>>
>> I note that update world wants to rebuild a bunch of packages (the
>> entire output is below).  Some are qt-related others involve
>> PYTHON_TARGETS.
>>
>> Does this mean that I can let the 44 packages / 38 reinstalls update occur
>> and expect a running system to result?  It is unusual, but I realize not
>> unprecedented, to have so many reinstalls and I would like to confirm
>> that this is expected.
>>
>> thanks,
>> allan
> 
> I realize that I forgot to attach the list of packages emerge wants to
> reinstall.  So I did the same emerge command (I always use --ask) and
> they are *gone*.  This I don't understand since I didn't sync inbetween
> (ls -lt /usr/portage shows nothing since wednesday).
> 
> I though all dependencies, etc are resolved locally so why would it
> change from 44 packages with 38 reinstalls to 4 packages with no
> reinstalls?


Did you make any changes to make.conf between your previous mail and
doing this last test?



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Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com