On 08/02/2010 05:53 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Updating python to 2.6.5_p20100801 will break portage. emerge will stop > working after that and there's no information on how to recover from > that right now (because emerge won't work, you can't downgrade to the > previous, working python version.) > > Bug for this issue: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330937
/usr/bin/python3.1 emerge =lang-python/python-2.6.5-r3 Assuming of course you've got python3.1 installed in another slot.

