Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Disabling auto-bumping of active Python version

[Sebastian Pipping]

On 11/29/10 13:10, Christian Faulhammer wrote:
> $ eselect python --help
> Manage Python symlinks
> Usage: eselect python <action> <options>
>
> [...]
> update                    Switch to the most recent CPython interpreter
> --if-unset                Do not override existing implementation
> --ignore SLOT             Ignore SLOT when setting symlinks
> --python2                 Set active Python 2 interpreter without
> setting of main active Python interpreter if it is not set to Python 2
> --python3                 Set active Python 3 interpreter without
> setting of main active Python interpreter if it is not set to Python 3
>
> See the --if-unset option.

I see, thanks.

What I would now like to call from the ebuild is

  eselect python set --if-unset ${SLOT}

Problem is ..
* action "set" wants and index, not a slot
* --if-unset works with update only

If there's a cleaner way than duplicating an ugly (and probably
error-prone) future wrapper to all ebuilds of dev-lang/python, I would
rather try that.

Any ideas?



Sebastian