[gentoo-user] re-emerge python-2.5 with Tkinter support

[Helmut Jarausch]

Hi,

I have (successfully) emerged python-2.5 but I forgot
to set my global USE flags to build tcltk support.
To have Tkinter available, I tried (after unmasking
the packages)
emerge --update --newuse =dev-lang/python-2.5

but it didn't re-emerge python since it's
brand new.
I don't dare to unmerge python since emerge is a
python script.
How can I proceed?

Many thanks for a hint,
Helmut.

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Helmut Jarausch

Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
RWTH - Aachen University
D 52056 Aachen, Germany

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Re: [gentoo-user] re-emerge python-2.5 with Tkinter support

[Neil Bothwick]

On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 15:34:38 +0200 (CEST), Helmut Jarausch wrote:

 I have (successfully) emerged python-2.5 but I forgot
 to set my global USE flags to build tcltk support.
 To have Tkinter available, I tried (after unmasking
 the packages)
 emerge --update --newuse =dev-lang/python-2.5
 
 but it didn't re-emerge python since it's
 brand new.

If you changed a flag used by the package, such as tk, --newuse should
cause a rebuild. But as you know you want to rebuild the package, why not
just do

emerge --oneshot =dev-lang/python-2.5

Or unmask python-2.5-r1 and let emerge -u world handle it.


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Neil Bothwick

Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue.


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