On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 10:11:59PM -0400, 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.
I don't remember seeing your emerge output; but if this has to do with pyton-exec you're not in the boat alone ... it is terribly fubared atm. -- Happy Penguin Computers >') 126 Fenco Drive ( \ Tupelo, MS 38801 ^^ supp...@happypenguincomputers.com 662-269-2706 662-205-6424 http://happypenguincomputers.com/ A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? Don't top-post: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post#Top-posting
