Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Prevent depclean from removing Python-2.6?

2011-05-16 Thread Adam Carter
+1 It bit me, and just seems stupid. +1 I like Neil's suggestion - eselect can put packages it knows about into a specially-named set. I've logged the bug; http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=367611 Based on the quality of Neil's posts i'm sure you're right, but i'll leave the devs

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Prevent depclean from removing Python-2.6?

2011-05-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 04:13 on Thursday 12 May 2011, Kevin O'Gorman did opine thusly: On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: Apparently so. It seems like it ought to pay attention to eselect. If I've explicitly configured my system to use

[gentoo-user] Re: Prevent depclean from removing Python-2.6?

2011-05-11 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-05-11, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2011-05-10, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Apparently so. It seems like it ought to pay attention to eselect. If I've explicitly configured my system to use 2.6 instead of 2.7, removing 2.6 doesn't seem like a good

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Prevent depclean from removing Python-2.6?

2011-05-11 Thread Adam Carter
Apparently so. It seems like it ought to pay attention to eselect. If I've explicitly configured my system to use 2.6 instead of 2.7, removing 2.6 doesn't seem like a good thing... Sounds to me like that should be made into a feature request. What does the list think? If there's support

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Prevent depclean from removing Python-2.6?

2011-05-11 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: Apparently so. It seems like it ought to pay attention to eselect. If I've explicitly configured my system to use 2.6 instead of 2.7, removing 2.6 doesn't seem like a good thing... Sounds to me like that should be

[gentoo-user] Re: Prevent depclean from removing Python-2.6?

2011-05-10 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-05-10, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 16:40 on Tuesday 10 May 2011, Grant Edwards did opine thusly: I ran emerge --depclean the other day on one of my machines and it removed Python 2.6. I was using Python 2.6 as my default python, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Prevent depclean from removing Python-2.6?

2011-05-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 17:13 on Tuesday 10 May 2011, Grant Edwards did opine thusly: I think the issue happens because portage does not take eselect choices into account when building it's dep graph, it only uses the DEPENDS in ebuilds. Apparently so. It seems like it ought to

[gentoo-user] Re: Prevent depclean from removing Python-2.6?

2011-05-10 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-05-10, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 17:13 on Tuesday 10 May 2011, Grant Edwards did opine thusly: I think the issue happens because portage does not take eselect choices into account when building it's dep graph, it only uses the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Prevent depclean from removing Python-2.6?

2011-05-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 10 May 2011 16:07:24 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: Perhaps having eselect add currently selected slots to the world file would be sufficient? Not the world file, that would be horrible, but they could be added to a spacial set. -- Neil Bothwick Three kinds of people: Those who

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Prevent depclean from removing Python-2.6?

2011-05-10 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 10 May 2011 16:13:41 Grant Edwards wrote: On 2011-05-10, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 16:40 on Tuesday 10 May 2011, Grant Edwards did opine thusly: I ran emerge --depclean the other day on one of my machines and it removed

[gentoo-user] Re: Prevent depclean from removing Python-2.6?

2011-05-10 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-05-10, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Apparently so. It seems like it ought to pay attention to eselect. If I've explicitly configured my system to use 2.6 instead of 2.7, removing 2.6 doesn't seem like a good thing... I am not sure I understand: If you eselect python 2.7