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Barry Schwartz posted on Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:19:14 -0500 as excerpted: |
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> Frank Peters <frank.peters@×××××××.net> skribis: |
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>> I have python-3.1.1 and python-2.6.3 installed. It was not my |
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>> intention to install both; portage/emerge just did it automatically. |
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>> By the time I noticed this dual installation my system was in place for |
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>> some time and running without problems, so I just left things that way. |
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>> Python-updater (run without options) doesn't report any anomaly. |
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>> What python version should I be using as the system python, 2.6.3 or |
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>> 3.1.1? Should I delete the older version and run python-updater? |
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> I haven't been following this conversation, but almost surely you do not |
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> want python 3 as your system python. It is a brand new dialect and |
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> almost nothing will work with it. :) |
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That's correct. As I wrote in a different post, unless you have |
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something specific that needs python-3, I'd actually recommend not |
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installing it. And almost without-a-doubt, you don't want it as your |
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system python. eselect python list, and make sure that's set for |
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2.6.whatever. If you're running a full ~arch system, that, and possibly |
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rebuilding a specific package or two, should be all you need to do -- if |
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it was working before, I'd not argue with it. However, the chances of |
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you actually needing 3.x for anything is going to be pretty low for |
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another six months or so at least, and likely longer, if I don't miss my |
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guess. And you'll likely save yourself worrying about a few bugs as |
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packages upgrade in the mean time. So yes, I'd probably mask >=3.0.0, |
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unmerge the python3 you have installed, and then run python updater, but |
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it's up to you. But I'd DEFINITELY ensure I had a 2.6 (or 2.5 for those |
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still on it) set as the system python, and run the updater with that set, |
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at a minimum. |
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FWIW, I do have 3.x masked and not on my system, here. I test lots of |
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stuff, but have no interest in worrying myself about python upgrade |
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bugs. Hopefully, by the time I do need it for something, many of the |
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bugs from the 3.x upgrades have already been taken care of without me |
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ever noticing them, since I was still locked on 2.6. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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