On 2008-09-16, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-09-15, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> I ran python-updater and it wanted to emerge 7 packages. I >>> emerged all of them except openoffice. Then I ran >>> python-updater again. It still wants to emerge half of the >>> packages that I just finished emerging. What does one have to >>> do to get a package off the list of things python-updater wants >>> to build? >>> >>> The packages it always wants to build are >>> >>> dev-libs/boost-1.34.1-r2 >>> x11-libs/vte-0.16.14 >>> app-office/gnumeric-1.8.3 >> >> Once you get them all emerged, unmerge the old version of >> python and it will be good to go. That is my experience >> anyway. > > Unmerging the old version of Python isn't unnecessary.
Oops, that should have been "is unnecessary." > Once I emerge OOo, everything should be indeed be fine. The > question is why does python-update think it needs to re-emerge > some packages that have already been emerged several times > since Python was updated? -- Grant
