Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Monday 07 December 2009 22:14:55 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Mon, 7 Dec 2009 23:10:18 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
The only benefit, which is questionable, is that python-3 is where its
at development-wise, and maybe perhaps the 2* series will become
unmaintained (shades of KDE-3). But I suspect that day is still far off.
Also, as things are able to make use of Python 3, it will be there. But
that doesn't warrant a "highly recommended", if anything needs it,
portage will install it anyway.
There's another wrinkle, too. I did follow the recommendation and install
Python 3, but what will happen when my current 2.6.4 is upgraded to, say,
2.7.0 and I want to run python-updater? Will I find myself updated to version
3 instead?
Maybe I should just remove Python 3 pro tem.
I think this is correct. Use eselect to set it to the new python, 2.7
or whatever, then run python updater. I seem to recall doing mine that
way before.
Also, I think you can specify what version you want to upgrade/downgrade
to as well. python-updater <version number> or something to that effect.
When I installed python 3 a while back, portage wouldn't select it
automatically since it would break things. I guess that is handy for
the time being.
Dale
:-) :-)
