On Thu, Oct 31 2013, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: > On Sun, Oct 27 2013, Mike Gilbert wrote: > >> Making things "just work" is complex when trying to juggle 6 or more >> supported versions/implementations of python. > > Indeed. > >> We have tried to explain the magic make.conf lines in the Python user guide. >> >> https://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/Python/python-r1/user-guide.xml >> >> We also try to make sure that most users never have to touch >> PYTHON_TARGETS, etc; the default values provided by your profile are >> set up to allow *stable* python2.7 and python3.2 to work properly. > >> ~arch users are expected to read the docs. ^_^ > > I am a ~amd64 user and I just read the user-guide. :-) > I do not see any action items for my system; but do see a large number > of reinstalls proposed by emerge > > I do not change any python variables in make.conf so emerge --info shows > PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" > PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_2" > > a recursive grep -i for python in /etc/portage yields only > ./package.use/imaging-pillow:5:virtual/python-imaging > -python_targets_python3_2 > > So I basically have the default except for the imaging/pillow business. > > I note that update world wants to rebuild a bunch of packages (the > entire output is below). Some are qt-related others involve > PYTHON_TARGETS. > > Does this mean that I can let the 44 packages / 38 reinstalls update occur > and expect a running system to result? It is unusual, but I realize not > unprecedented, to have so many reinstalls and I would like to confirm > that this is expected. > > thanks, > allan
I realize that I forgot to attach the list of packages emerge wants to reinstall. So I did the same emerge command (I always use --ask) and they are *gone*. This I don't understand since I didn't sync inbetween (ls -lt /usr/portage shows nothing since wednesday). I though all dependencies, etc are resolved locally so why would it change from 44 packages with 38 reinstalls to 4 packages with no reinstalls? Could someone please set me straight? thanks, allan
