From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A445138BD3 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 2014 05:33:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7672BE092F; Wed, 5 Nov 2014 05:33:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lyseo.edu.ouka.fi (unknown [82.128.138.2]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41FECE087A for ; Wed, 5 Nov 2014 05:33:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [100.67.106.114] (85-76-1-72-nat.elisa-mobile.fi [85.76.1.72]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lyseo.edu.ouka.fi (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3F18A13F98E9 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 2014 07:33:34 +0200 (EET) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] using python 2.7 References: <5459026B.5020800@yourstruly.sx> <54595401.9000904@yourstruly.sx> <545968F5.20000@gmail.com> From: Matti Nykyri Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: iPhone Mail (11D201) In-Reply-To: <545968F5.20000@gmail.com> Message-Id: <54687586-0F54-44A5-AC82-D83BFF8F9ED5@iki.fi> Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2014 07:33:17 +0200 To: "gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) X-Archives-Salt: 50174611-ac56-41a7-9401-acae2daa53b0 X-Archives-Hash: 1e749a5bf1d2c412d9511424b1f6fce0 > On Nov 5, 2014, at 2:01, Dale wrote: > > Paige Thompson wrote: >> Sorry for the dumb message, I figured out how to use eselect python (the >> syntax is a little weird and not very well documented.) This fixed my >> issue as near as I can tell. > > For future reference, make sure nothing depends on whatever version of > python you want to remove before you remove it. If you don't, it could > get very interesting in a really bad way. Python is one of those > packages that you have to watch out for gotchas on. It sometimes comes > back and bites you. Luckily it is not poisonous :) -- -Matti