On Friday 25 March 2016 14:40:57 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 25 Mar 2016 09:40:07 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > A user has 2 choices: > > > > > > - set python2 as default and configure packages that can use python3 > > > to use it > > > - set python3 as default and configure packages that requires python2 > > > to use it > > > > > > Which method you use depends entirely on what packages you use. > > > > But Gentoo has two python versions set: a python 2 and a python 3. I > > assume that ebuilds specify which version they need, so the default is > > rarely used. > > > > In that case it won't matter which is set as default. > > It's not the ebuilds, they are written n bash, it's the various scripts > you tun. If they specify the interpreter as python2 or python3, > everything is fine (you can eselect the default for each of these) but if > it just calls python, the script had better be written for the version > you have as default. > > On the basis that all python3 scripts were written at a time when the > difference was known, but the same does not apply to all python2 scripts, > I prefer to leave the default at python2. That was everything should run, > no matter how old it is.
Hmm. I'll have to give that some thought. -- Rgds Peter linux counter 5290, 1994/04/23
