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 1QKANU-0003Vy-Im for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 11 May 2011 14:27:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 47E8E1C06E; Wed, 11 May 2011 14:25:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 166821C06E for ; Wed, 11 May 2011 14:25:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A34F81B4082 for ; Wed, 11 May 2011 14:25:28 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.159 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.159 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.560, 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 gpVdvXlWgcEq for ; Wed, 11 May 2011 14:25:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 749421B4077 for ; Wed, 11 May 2011 14:25:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QKALi-0005qE-1V for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 11 May 2011 16:25:14 +0200 Received: from dsl.comtrol.com ([64.122.56.22]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 11 May 2011 16:25:14 +0200 Received: from grant.b.edwards by dsl.comtrol.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 11 May 2011 16:25:14 +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 14:25:03 +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: dsl.comtrol.com User-Agent: slrn/pre0.9.9-102 (Linux) X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 3cc4b1a1ecb9165cc00937da26fa2470 On 2011-05-11, Grant Edwards wrote: > 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. That should have read "weren't compatible with 2.7." -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Can you MAIL a BEAN at CAKE? gmail.com