2009-10-04 20:32:17 Hanno Böck napisał(a):
> I just stepped over a problem with the new python-wrapper. If I interpreted 
> the changelogs correctly, since eselect-python-20090801 /usr/bin/python is no 
> longer a symlink, but a wrapper.

Since eselect-python-20090804 /usr/bin/python is a symlink to a wrapper.
 
> I find this a questionable idea simply for the overhead it causes, but it 
> seems that this breaks all init-scripts using start-stop-daemon for python 
> scripts.
> 
> Example:
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=286191
> 
> (same issue happens with some self-written python daemons we're using on our 
> servers)
> 
> I don't know what the reasons were for the change from symlinks to a wrapper

Ebuilds (usually through python.eclass) need to be able to set requested version
of Python without changing /usr/bin/python symlink. This is performed by setting
EPYTHON environment variable ("E" in the name of this variable is related to words
"ebuild" and "eclass"). If this variable isn't set, then Python wrapper uses
version of Python configured using `eselect python`. Otherwise it uses version of
Python referenced by this variable.

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