Dale wrote:
Mark Knecht wrote:
As part of emerge -DuN system portage appears to first make me remove
python by hand. Is this safe?
No! Not until you get a working version installed. Portage needs
python. Someone correct me if I misstep here:
emerge the new python, run the python updater and let it emerge whatever
packages it needs to rebuild, check to make sure nothing still needs the
old version and then you can unmerge the old one.
I think that is the correct way.
It is. *Only* unmerge the old Python after you emerged the new one
*and* ran python-updater.
Unmerging Python without first emerging the new version is equivalent to
sawing off the branch you are sitting on. You could as well unmerge
portage itself and wonder where portage went and why you can't emerge.
