[gentoo-user] Samba wants to downgrade my python....

2012-09-16 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, I've got a media server that I'm in the process of installing Samba on. When I do: emerge -NuD --pretend samba I get a list of stuff that portage wants to install, including Python, V2.7.3, even though the machine already has V3.2.3 installed. I've also stripped down the USE

Re: [gentoo-user] Samba wants to downgrade my python....

2012-09-16 Thread Randolph Maaßen
On Sep 16, 2012 1:05 PM, Andrew Lowe a...@wht.com.au wrote: Hi all, I've got a media server that I'm in the process of installing Samba on. When I do: emerge -NuD --pretend samba I get a list of stuff that portage wants to install, including Python, V2.7.3, even though the machine

Re: [gentoo-user] Samba wants to downgrade my python....

2012-09-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 18:59:33 +0800 Andrew Lowe a...@wht.com.au wrote: Hi all, I've got a media server that I'm in the process of installing Samba on. When I do: emerge -NuD --pretend samba I get a list of stuff that portage wants to install, including Python, V2.7.3, even though

Re: [gentoo-user] Samba wants to downgrade my python....

2012-09-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 18:59:33 +0800, Andrew Lowe wrote: I've had a look at the USE variables for the packages that follow Python in the emerge list and they either don't want python or already have -python set. You've already had a reply about the slotted nature of python, but you also need

Re: [gentoo-user] Samba wants to downgrade my python....

2012-09-16 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Sun, 16 Sep 2012 18:59:33 +0800 schrieb Andrew Lowe a...@wht.com.au: Hi all, Hi, I've got a media server that I'm in the process of installing Samba on. When I do: emerge -NuD --pretend samba I get a list of stuff that portage wants to install, including Python, V2.7.3,

Re: [gentoo-user] Samba wants to downgrade my python....

2012-09-16 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 09/16/12 19:19, Randolph Maaßen wrote: On Sep 16, 2012 1:05 PM, Andrew Lowe a...@wht.com.au mailto:a...@wht.com.au wrote: Hi all, I've got a media server that I'm in the process of installing Samba on. When I do: emerge -NuD --pretend samba I get a list of stuff that

Re: [gentoo-user] Samba wants to downgrade my python....

2012-09-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 19:32:11 +0800, Andrew Lowe wrote: I suppose I'll have to have a look at the ebuild to try and work out why this thingy wants Python, any python, in the first place. Portage is written in Python, which raises the question of why you didn't have python:2 installed in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Samba wants to downgrade my python....

2012-09-16 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 09/16/12 19:53, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 19:32:11 +0800, Andrew Lowe wrote: I suppose I'll have to have a look at the ebuild to try and work out why this thingy wants Python, any python, in the first place. Portage is written in Python, which raises the question of why you

Re: [gentoo-user] Samba wants to downgrade my python....

2012-09-16 Thread Kerin Millar
Andrew Lowe wrote: On 09/16/12 19:53, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 19:32:11 +0800, Andrew Lowe wrote: I suppose I'll have to have a look at the ebuild to try and work out why this thingy wants Python, any python, in the first place. Portage is written in Python, which raises the