drobbins@g.o wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 10:34:49PM -0500, Jerry A! wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 08:32:38PM -0700, drobbins@g.o wrote:
> > : On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 10:15:17PM -0500, Jerry A! wrote:
> > : > Hey Dan, I just tried to build Python 2.0.  Failed because
> > : > files/pfconfig.h doesn't exist.  Also, file/digest-python-2.0 doesn't
> > : > appear to be in CVS either.
> > : >
> > : > Thought you'd like to know...
> > :
> > : It's in sys-devel now.  I just deleted the remaining stuff that you
> > : tried to use so that others don't get confused.
> >
> > Cool.  Hey, any thoughts on which you think is better between the
> > python and spython portages?
>
> Well, since they're both in sys-devel, you'll need to install both :) But
> python is better, 'cause it has more stuff. spython is a minimal static version
> of python that exists so that portage can swap out system libraries without
> having to worry about zapping itself.

Do you think we need sys-devel/python-basic? I think we can remove it because we
still have
dev-lang/python. In opposit to perl, python is not required to build anythin in
sys so we don't
need python-basic any longer.

Bye Achim


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