Albert Hopkins <mar...@letterboxes.org> writes: > On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 11:17 -0400, Doug Hunley wrote: > I would think (hope) that the python maintainers were smart enough to > know whether installing Python 3 would break portage. Then again, this > is Gentoo ;-)
Just installing it doesn't break portage. But using it does! :) 19:14:44 poke:~ $ eselect python list Available python interpreters: [1] python2.6 [2] python3.1 19:17:24 poke:~ $ sudo eselect python set 2 19:17:31 poke:~ $ emerge --info File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 41 except PermissionDenied, e: ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax -- Christer