On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 20:24:01 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > We've been warned not to use Python 3 , so it's not installed in this > box, but it was included along with Python 2 in the Stage3 for the new > machine. I now find that 13 pkgs have been compiled relying on it > & Portage refuses to unmerge it. Is this safe ?
Perfectly safe, because we weren't warned to not use it, only to not set it as the default. That is reasonable because older scripts won't be aware of the differences between python 2 and 3, while newer scripts can explicitly call whichever version they need. The only problem with setting python 3 as the default is that some older scripts may break. Since portage became python3- aware there is no reason to not have it installed beyond the 30MB of disk space it occupies. -- Neil Bothwick WinErr 00C: Memory hog error - More Ram needed. More! More! More!
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