On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 08:55:35PM -0600, Joseph wrote
> During upgrade a got a message: 
> 
> !! The following installed packages are masked:
> - dev-lang/python-3.1.5-r1::gentoo (masked by: package.mask)
> /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask:
> # Micha?? Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> (07 Aug 2013)
> # These outdated versions of Python are no longer updated or maintained
> # properly. Python 2.5 started to become a blocker for Python 3.3.
> # Python 3.1 has proved to become unfriendly to writing portable code.
> # PyPy is still experimental and we're in process of bringing 2.1.
> # The remaining packages are backports of functions that targeted only
> # the very specific version. The masked packages will be removed
> # in 30 days. Afterwards, ebuild and eclass support for those
> # implementations will be removed. Bug #480070.
> 
> My default is set to: python2.7 *
> Should I remove manually python-3.1.5-r1

  I suggest "emerge --sync" followed by a regular world update.  My
current python versions are 2.7.5 and 3.2.5-r1.  The update should
replace your 3.1.5-r1 with the current 3.2 version.

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

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