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 1QJzBf-0004iw-Aj for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 11 May 2011 02:30:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 57F711C046; Wed, 11 May 2011 02:28:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FB631C046 for ; Wed, 11 May 2011 02:28:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A0431BC017 for ; Wed, 11 May 2011 02:28:39 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.206 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.206 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.607, BAYES_00=-2.599] 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 pODRXgn9p0DC for ; Wed, 11 May 2011 02:28:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 452F71B4012 for ; Wed, 11 May 2011 02:28:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QJzA2-0001Lq-Ui for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 11 May 2011 04:28:26 +0200 Received: from 67-220-17-92.usiwireless.com ([67.220.17.92]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 11 May 2011 04:28:26 +0200 Received: from grant.b.edwards by 67-220-17-92.usiwireless.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 11 May 2011 04:28:26 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Prevent depclean from removing Python-2.6? Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 02:28:16 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <201105101653.35456.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <201105102136.41151.michaelkintzios@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=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 67-220-17-92.usiwireless.com User-Agent: slrn/0.9.9p1 (Linux) X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 28592a98f79db36c4b5e904f5afab44a On 2011-05-10, Mick wrote: >> Apparently so. It seems like it ought to pay attention to eselect. >> If I've explicitly configured my system to use 2.6 instead of 2.7, >> removing 2.6 doesn't seem like a good thing... > > I am not sure I understand: > > If you eselect python 2.7 and run python-updater (and revdep-rebuild > just in case) I would think that you *should* have a working system. I have a number of python libraries installed that don't have ebuilds. At one point some of them weren't compatible with 2.6. I don't know if that's still the case, but I don't have time right now to go through that exercise on three machines. So I'm sticking with python 2.6 for the time being. > Unless some particular package is hardcoded to use 2.6 things should > not really break. > > Am I wrong here? It depends on what python apps/libraries you depend on. I'm sure everything that was installed via emerge would be OK. -- Grant