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 D18ED138C48 for ; Mon, 13 Apr 2015 01:24:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 06E99E09B8; Mon, 13 Apr 2015 01:24:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com (out4-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DB20DE09A6 for ; Mon, 13 Apr 2015 01:24:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.nyi.internal [10.202.2.41]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6238420729 for ; Sun, 12 Apr 2015 21:24:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend2 ([10.202.2.161]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Sun, 12 Apr 2015 21:24:49 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type :date:from:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:references :subject:to:x-sasl-enc:x-sasl-enc; s=smtpout; bh=3L4pE4ZyPtMQh2L GVN3PAzh/uQs=; b=VItV1Y/WIYEtXeQfL95bHfvlVvRh7YKTMfrQNeu2nY4UpMX ItMc1YW4bgLYQhz3zQBMgcbEzRelJbaYkKgphxf7jSqNzR6wY+x4Tyf4S9AIed3u Emce5nwrit4h28H6oJYfAfUBhp11R1C6legGLc+j9Y0/kdrlJSlOXnjA3a8I= X-Sasl-enc: XyCKNOV3z8KsdPJS4ij98MgNHR2dNIRMLDKKs4r5qTX8 1428888289 Received: from [192.168.1.3] (unknown [68.37.5.231]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 231356801DC for ; Sun, 12 Apr 2015 21:24:49 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <552B1AE0.5030507@alectenharmsel.com> Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2015 21:24:48 -0400 From: Alec Ten Harmsel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.5.0 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Machine completely broken; Ncursed! References: <55292E11.9040202@verizon.net> <2227740.m4amG7ENkq@andromeda> <20150412122356.5cadb5d4@sepulchrave.remarqs> <1548532.LqqDBuMcQi@andromeda> <20150412201552.3e0aca16@sepulchrave.remarqs> In-Reply-To: <20150412201552.3e0aca16@sepulchrave.remarqs> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 3faa3122-5d3c-413c-9f87-79f1ba9f47c1 X-Archives-Hash: e4574ed7d006088987a6a6efc794e18e On 04/12/2015 09:15 PM, »Q« wrote: > > Before you pore through it, I guess I should point out that it's not > causing me any problems -- I was just curious about why it would be a > bad idea for me to manage those PYTHON_* variables myself. I guess the > most notable thing about my make.conf is that I'm one of those crazy > USE="-*" people. > It's not a bad idea to manage the PYTHON_TARGETS, PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET, and RUBY_TARGET variables if you *need* a specific version of python or ruby. If you do not, I would say it is bad. These are set in the profile so that the maintainers can decide when to update to a new stable version. Since all of the various python and ruby libraries are installed from source, it's generally a good idea to wait for the maintainers to stabilize a certain version since that means the library support is also good. Also, using the KDE profile and having USE="-*" seem contrary. One of the main reasons to use a profile is to get a relevant set of USE flags. Alec