On Thursday 26 May 2005 23:36, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 26 May 2005 16:24:28 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > > Now of course I know that Portage depends on Python, and I certainly > > don't want to mess up Portage, so how do I get rid of this version of > > Python (or how do I recover if there's no way to get rid of it without > > breaking anything)? > > Portage depends on Python 2.3, unmerging that and leaving 2.4 could break > things, the other way round shouldn't.
Portage works with >=python-2.2. Unmerging either 2.3 or 2.4 should not cause any troubles with portage at all as the libraries and scripts live outside the python directories. > However, it is worth playing safe, so use quickpkg to build a binary > package of any potentially important package before unmerging it. Even if > you break portage, you can still install a binary package with > > tar xf /path/to/package.tbz2 -C / This is always good advice. Regards, Jason Stubbs
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