Re: [gentoo-alt] [prefix]-portage on native gentoo

[Fabian Groffen]

On 10-12-2007 19:04:05 +0100, Michael Haubenwallner wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 18:20 +0100, Fabian Groffen wrote:
> > On 10-12-2007 17:27:03 +0100, Michael Haubenwallner wrote:
> > > > However, portage /does/ record which python it wants to use, so
> > > > eventually it gets the "correct" python libraries when NOT using
> > > > PYTHONPATH.
> > >
> > > Problem here is not that it finds wrong python modules, but wrong
> > > *portage* modules, because PYTHONPATH=/usr/lib/portage/pym
> > >
> > > It (seems to) work when I unset PYTHONPATH before doing prefix.
> >
> > Reason for this IMHO is for Portage developers to be able to tell
> > portage where it /should/ look for its stuff by simply setting
> > PYTHONPATH.  If we ignore this var, Portage no longer would "listen" to
> > you.
>
> In case this really is the (only) reason I'd find some configure-flag
> "--enable-devmode" in combination with some USE-flag "devmode" useful...

Alternatively, we just make it listen to PORTAGE_PYTHONPATH or something
instead.  I guess that would be acceptable for merging.

> > However, I don't ever use it, so I don't care.  I could apply a patch
> > such that it will always use the modules it was configured to do, but
> > I'm almost certain "upstream" won't merge that.
>
> Eventually we should add some 'unset PYTHONPATH' to both the bootstrap
> procedure as well as etc/profile ...

I think this is a very good thing in the bootstrap procedure... even
though I basically already assume there that you have a clean shell.
Mentioning somewhere at the top won't hurt in any case.  Do you know
where you can find those .xml documents?

> Or just don't set PYTHONPATH in main gentoo, if portage knows where to
> find itself...

I guess this option is due to multiple reasons not an option.


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