Re: [gentoo-user] how to emerge a package for python2.5 while python2.7 is default?

[Evgeny Bushkov]

On 06.05.2011 13:28, Xi Shen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My system is Gentoo 64bit, up to date. I want to use GAE, but it
> supports python2.5 only. So I emerged python2.5, but I am unable to
> emerge packages for python2.5.
>
> E.g. I emerged dev-python/oauth, but it is installed to
> /usr/lib64/python2.7, but not python2.5.
>
> I think using eselect to change python version will not work, because
> the emerge has already upgraded to python2.7.
>
>
Try to add USE_PYTHON="2.5 2.7" to your make.conf. After that rebuild
your package. USE_PYTHON says you want both 2.5 and 2.7 python modules
built and installed.

Best regards,
Bushkov E.