Sorry for the dumb message, I figured out how to use eselect python (the syntax is a little weird and not very well documented.) This fixed my issue as near as I can tell.
On 11/04/14 17:16, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Paige Thompson <erra...@yourstruly.sx> wrote: >> RIP python 3 >> >> how do I get rid of it > It's possible that you can't. Some (or many) packages could depend on > Python 2.7 because they don't work with Python 3.x. You can check that > with: > > equery depends dev-lang/python:2.7 > > In my main system (full GNOME 3 desktop), 174 packages depend on > Python 2.7. Some of them probably can be made to work only with Python > 3.x, but I'm willing to bet that the majority doesn't. > > Maybe in the future, but I don't think it will be possible for at > least a few years. > > Regards.