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 1MnZz3-0004RC-My for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:30:22 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E7162E0833; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:30:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C61E0E0833 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:30:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D63366D48 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:30:19 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.494 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.494 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.105, 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 uWlB69w3lQg0 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:30:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A00F26752D for ; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:30:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1MnZyn-0000t9-8u for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:30:07 +0200 Received: from www.buffer.net ([24.73.161.102]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:30:05 +0200 Received: from wireless by www.buffer.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:30:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: James Subject: [gentoo-user] python cleanup Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:29:42 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: 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@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 24.73.161.102 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.22) Gecko/20090820 SeaMonkey/1.1.17) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: fe0cbe44-c27c-49b9-9c75-f29315640a29 X-Archives-Hash: d7a5aff3962f38fb2484a793283b2f82 Python and Java have taken me days to clean up on an old, mostly unattended system. I'm almost done, but have an issue, I've not seen before. emerge -p @preserved-rebuild [ebuild R ] dev-db/libpq-8.1.11 [ebuild R ] app-text/hunspell-1.2.8 [ebuild U ] dev-lang/python-2.5.4-r3 [2.5.4-r2] [ebuild R ] kde-base/kalgebra-4.2.4 [ebuild R ] app-crypt/gnupg-2.0.11 [ebuild R ] dev-lang/lua-5.1.4 [ebuild R ] sci-libs/libqalculate-0.9.6-r1 [ebuild R ] media-video/ffmpeg-0.5-r1 USE="doc*" [ebuild R ] dev-scheme/guile-1.8.5-r1 [ebuild R ] sys-devel/gdb-6.8-r1 [ebuild R ] sys-devel/bc-1.06.95 [ebuild R ] dev-db/mysql-5.0.70-r1 [ebuild R ] dev-db/postgresql-8.1.11 Ok this is strange, as I have rebuild @system on this system and python-updater has moved everything to python 2.6 (???) dev-lang/python Available versions: (2.4) 2.4.6 (2.5) 2.5.4-r3 (2.6) 2.6.2-r1 (3.1) ~3.1.1 Installed versions: 2.5.4-r2(2.5) 2.6.2-r1(2.6) So what's pulling in python 2.5? equery depends dev-lang/pythondev-lang/python-2.5.4-r2 Searching for packages depending on dev-lang/python-2.5.4-r2... Nothing (?) So is it OK to unmerge python 2.5? Or do I still need it? I still get old garbage wanting python 2.5 with emerge -p @preserved-rebuild How to proceed is most welcome news to me. James