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

[gottlieb@nyu.edu]

On Fri, Nov 01 2013, Alan McKinnon wrote:

> 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?

Good question, but no.

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 709 Sep 18 14:58 /etc/portage/make.conf

allan