From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M9PkL-0004bi-3u for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 27 May 2009 20:29:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 241E3E057F; Wed, 27 May 2009 20:29:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f176.google.com (mail-gx0-f176.google.com [209.85.217.176]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 078F4E057F for ; Wed, 27 May 2009 20:29:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk24 with SMTP id 24so13842238gxk.10 for ; Wed, 27 May 2009 13:29:07 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=jZWartoz3YHH42AIeYgs8ZwjC+bMapchGYrGb8kBEAU=; b=M+kIodl9MXNNBhN78LVf9LVTyjw4T1+ov5Mj+py0gdEtbpwArpZrcaKfJkPaNGdg3a k/4IxPdix5+xcwL7i8EPCLBnyEujLjVa7gZNtuklnlfnDloK3ooDiwymCEPCmrG+Uoxl MNAzAbIKjK94wAqplERhsDpgzkPu41YuRuuZg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-type; b=ctuuyglzYhqEpFh/woIjzwEagdo+XPt6f7DquGym9bDxzZSOyCAOfPH8pn8NyvxEte Yp3zj8MITiGcLjb7CDR11rpEhzEVZnKTGfzaKNmc1Ulide1AMiTeuvilvf9Jvct/duTT qU9WVhkFDtidaPo3WvkLm9W9HRiMo4seybUh0= 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 Received: by 10.151.134.1 with SMTP id l1mr964254ybn.146.1243456147727; Wed, 27 May 2009 13:29:07 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090527094938.4b31aa9b@gmail.com> References: <43709.23046.qm@web51309.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <20090523190850.1c529701@gmail.com> <20090527094938.4b31aa9b@gmail.com> From: Wyatt Epp Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 16:28:35 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ARGH I uninstalled python To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001e680f1420faa55e046aeab1c5 X-Archives-Salt: 7b7d6019-0afb-4568-88ce-5091d6340e4e X-Archives-Hash: 25890c9c09bf5fd379bd6ae36aa3aa12 --001e680f1420faa55e046aeab1c5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Jorge Morais wrote: > I should mention that you should be careful about deleting any files - > and qfile is not a 100% guarantee that the file does not come from a > Portage-installed package. For example, in my system Python was > installed by Portage, and > $ file /usr/bin/python > /usr/bin/python: symbolic link to `python2.5' > , yet > $ qfile /usr/bin/python > You know, I wonder if that's not a bug? There is no eselect module for setting your python version, and there's no entry for that symlink in the CONTENTS for these packages. If I understand the role of that file, that symlink really shouldn't exist without being listed there. Cheers, Wyatt --001e680f1420faa55e046aeab1c5 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Jorge Morais <please= .no.spam.here@gmail.com> wrote:
I should mention that you should be careful about deleting any files -
and qfile is not a 100% guarantee that the file does not come from a
Portage-installed package. For example, in my system Python was
installed by Portage, and
$ file /usr/bin/python
/usr/bin/python: symbolic link to `python2.5'
, yet
$ qfile /usr/bin/python
<No output>

You know, I wonder if that's not= a bug?=C2=A0 There is no eselect module for setting your python version, a= nd there's no entry for that symlink in the CONTENTS for these packages= .=C2=A0 If I understand the role of that file, that symlink really shouldn&= #39;t exist without being listed there.

Cheers,
Wyatt
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