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. thanks, allan
