On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 11:17 -0400, Doug Hunley wrote:
> I noticed that my 'emerge world' wants to replace python 2.6.2 with
> python 3.1 (I run ~x86).
It doesn't "replace" 2.6.2. It's slotted.
> Is it safe to do so or will portage (and
> everything else) freak out?
I would think (hope) that the python maintainers were smart enough to
know whether installing Python 3 would break portage. Then again, this
is Gentoo ;-)
> If it is, in fact, safe are there any
> extra (special) steps needed to ensure continued operation of things?
> Thanks.
>From the ebuild's post-install:
WARNING!
Many Python modules haven't been ported yet to Python 3.*.
/usr/bin/python hasn't been updated and still references your
old Python installation.
