On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. >
Thanks. That is sort of what I thought but I felt it best to ask first. It seems I have python oriented things in my world file that I'm not clear need to be there. One is python-updater. I'll emerge python first and then return to look at how emerge -DuN world would proceed. Thanks! Cheers, Mark
