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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ARGH I uninstalled python
Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 21:09:25
Message-Id: 4A19B77C.4040006@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] ARGH I uninstalled python by Neil Bothwick
1 Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Sun, 24 May 2009 18:22:05 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
3 >
4 >
5 >>> Not exactly, buildsyspkg does the same as it always did, but @system
6 >>> has changed. This cold have happened at any time as there was never a
7 >>> need for python to be in @system,because it's a dependency of
8 >>> portage.
9 >>>
10 >> That may well be the way it IS, but it certainly is not the way it
11 >> SHOULD BE. The only sane way to do this is:
12 >>
13 >> if (pkgmgr=portage)
14 >> python in @system
15 >> else
16 >> python !in system
17 >> end
18 >>
19 >
20 > That's not particularly sane, because it addresses only one special case,
21 > others may arise. IMO the sane approach, as I said some posts
22 > ago, is for buildsyspkg to build packages for everything in @system and
23 > their dependencies. If you can't do "emerge -eK @system", buildsyspkg
24 > has failed to do anything useful.
25 >
26 >
27 >
28
29 That's what I am trying to say. Thanks. Being someone who only speaks
30 English, I ain't very good at it. LOL It's the dependencies that is
31 not working here. Portage has to have python to work so leaving that
32 out is a bad idea. Ask the OP about that.
33
34 Now can someone explain this problem to the devs so they can fix this?
35
36 Dale
37
38 :-) :-)