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From: Bill Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] python 3.6
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2018 22:40:24
Message-Id: 3e685023-9ed2-3cb7-c9ca-6fdceeeac450@iinet.net.au
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] python 3.6 by John Covici
1 On 28/06/18 06:16, John Covici wrote:
2 > On Wed, 27 Jun 2018 17:04:57 -0400,
3 > Ralph Seichter wrote:
4 >> On 27.06.18 22:43, Bill Kenworthy wrote:
5 >>
6 >>> After installing python 3.6, I now have multiple systems wanting to
7 >>> depclean it! Have I missed something? Should I be uninstalling 3.4
8 >>> and 3.5 which are also present?
9 >> After you have recompiled all packages that were built with Python 3.4
10 >> and 3.5 support and verified that these versions are no longer required,
11 >> you can delete them.
12 > This is not working for me -- after doing a world update, there are
13 > still packages which apparently need both 3.4 and 3.5, so I cannot
14 > remove them. I wonder why this would be happening?
15 >
16 Just found that by re-emergeing 3.6.5 it stops trying to remove it - I
17 can remove 3.4 but not 3.5.5 as its "still in use as the primary python
18 vrsion" despite 3.6 being [1] in eselect.
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21 BillK

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Re: [gentoo-user] python 3.6 Marc Joliet <marcec@×××.de>