Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: "Dustin C. Hatch" <admiralnemo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] python-3.1.5-r1
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 04:41:19
Message-Id: 5212F363.1030704@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] python-3.1.5-r1 by Joseph
1 On 8/19/2013 21:55, Joseph wrote:
2 > During upgrade a got a message:
3 > !! The following installed packages are masked:
4 > - dev-lang/python-3.1.5-r1::gentoo (masked by: package.mask)
5 > /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask:
6 > # Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> (07 Aug 2013)
7 > # These outdated versions of Python are no longer updated or maintained
8 > # properly. Python 2.5 started to become a blocker for Python 3.3.
9 > # Python 3.1 has proved to become unfriendly to writing portable code.
10 > # PyPy is still experimental and we're in process of bringing 2.1.
11 > # The remaining packages are backports of functions that targeted only
12 > # the very specific version. The masked packages will be removed
13 > # in 30 days. Afterwards, ebuild and eclass support for those
14 > # implementations will be removed. Bug #480070.
15 >
16 > My default is set to: python2.7 *
17 > Should I remove manually python-3.1.5-r1
18 >
19 You'll want to check which version of Python provides the 3.x system as
20 well. Just do `eselect python list --python3`. If python3.1 is shown
21 with a *, you need to make sure Python 3.2 is installed (@world updates
22 will take care of that, or emerge python:3.2). Then `eselect python set
23 python3.2 --python3` and then `python-updater`
24
25 hth
26
27 --
28 ♫Dustin
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