On Thursday 11 June 2009 05:18:18 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 06/11/2009 06:11 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> > I recommend putting "-python" in your make.conf followed by "emerge
> > -auDN world" and then a depclean along with revdev-rebuild.
>
> You might have to enable python in a few packages after that though and
> disable it in others.  In my case:
>
>    echo "dev-libs/libxml2 python" >> /etc/portage/package.use
>
> Just follow the messages that tell you to enable the python USE flag in
> specific packages.  It's much cleaner to enable it only in packages that
> actually need it rather than globally (which drags along PyQt and PyKDE.)

So is it more or less correct to say that USE=python gives you python plugins 
for most packages? There could be other uses of course, but is that the most 
common?


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