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From: drobbins@g.o
To: Jerry A! <jerry@×××××××.org>
Cc: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Python Probs
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 20:39:21
Message-Id: 20010111203921.C12571@cvs.gentoo.org
1 On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 10:34:49PM -0500, Jerry A! wrote:
2 > On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 08:32:38PM -0700, drobbins@g.o wrote:
3 > : On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 10:15:17PM -0500, Jerry A! wrote:
4 > : > Hey Dan, I just tried to build Python 2.0. Failed because
5 > : > files/pfconfig.h doesn't exist. Also, file/digest-python-2.0 doesn't
6 > : > appear to be in CVS either.
7 > : >
8 > : > Thought you'd like to know...
9 > :
10 > : It's in sys-devel now. I just deleted the remaining stuff that you
11 > : tried to use so that others don't get confused.
12 >
13 > Cool. Hey, any thoughts on which you think is better between the
14 > python and spython portages?
15
16 Well, since they're both in sys-devel, you'll need to install both :) But
17 python is better, 'cause it has more stuff. spython is a minimal static version
18 of python that exists so that portage can swap out system libraries without
19 having to worry about zapping itself.
20
21 --
22 Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>
23 President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org
24 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.

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