On Fri, Nov 01 2013, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 01/11/2013 15:41, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: >> 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? > > > Did you make any changes to make.conf between your previous mail and > doing this last test?
Good question, but no. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 709 Sep 18 14:58 /etc/portage/make.conf allan
