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 1MXdsP-0002Ef-Lh for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 02 Aug 2009 16:25:37 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 445E0E02DA; Sun, 2 Aug 2009 16:25:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EB18E02DA for ; Sun, 2 Aug 2009 16:25:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0C0C66B7F for ; Sun, 2 Aug 2009 16:25:35 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.524 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.524 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.075, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id TnrxASwbW7Fl for ; Sun, 2 Aug 2009 16:25:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F27D764178 for ; Sun, 2 Aug 2009 16:25:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MXdsB-0002nG-FE for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sun, 02 Aug 2009 16:25:23 +0000 Received: from athedsl-384906.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.55.136]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 02 Aug 2009 16:25:23 +0000 Received: from realnc by athedsl-384906.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 02 Aug 2009 16:25:23 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: python 3.1 safe as default python? Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2009 19:25:13 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <7284e2210908020817g1015ed0aw3086d32d7936e1a4@mail.gmail.com> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-384906.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090730 Thunderbird/3.0b3 In-Reply-To: <7284e2210908020817g1015ed0aw3086d32d7936e1a4@mail.gmail.com> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: fdcda2a7-e722-41e5-a7f8-7dadc1e3d698 X-Archives-Hash: c4716ce92e40f445fb15801ee9d8fff4 On 08/02/2009 06:17 PM, Doug Hunley wrote: > I noticed that my 'emerge world' wants to replace python 2.6.2 with > python 3.1 (I run ~x86). Nope, it does not :) It only wants to install it alongside 2.6.x, not replace it. > Is it safe to do so or will portage (and > everything else) freak out? If it is, in fact, safe are there any > extra (special) steps needed to ensure continued operation of things? > Thanks. No danger. The default will still be 2.6.x. If you don't specifically need 3.1 though, you can simply mask it since the only thing it will do in your case is take up disk space.