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Andrew Lowe wrote: |
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> On 09/16/12 19:53, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>> On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 19:32:11 +0800, Andrew Lowe wrote: |
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>>> I suppose I'll have to have a look at the |
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>>> ebuild to try and work out why this thingy wants Python, any python, in |
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>>> the first place. |
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>> Portage is written in Python, which raises the question of why you didn't |
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>> have python:2 installed in the first place. The samba ebuild doesn't |
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>> include a dependency on python, so you'll need to do and emerge -t to see |
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>> which packages do pull it in, but I suspect it is required by an eclass |
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>> inherited by one of the ebuilds. |
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>> If so, Samba itself does not need Python to do it's job, but portage |
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>> needs Python in order to install Samba. that would make it a build |
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>> dependency which could be uninstalled after Samba was merged, but I'd be |
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>> nervous about removing Python from any Gentoo system that uses portage. |
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> Neil, |
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> Looks like you've hit the nail on the head. The media machine has just |
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> had a new install of Gentoo done and according to "eselect python list", |
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> I only have V3.2. Nothing has been removed, just a few things added so |
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> it looks like the default "install" only does V3.2. Looks like I'll have |
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> to put up with it, the compile time on the little machine is a killer, |
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> and let the install happen. |
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Portage works with either instance of python and its ebuild has |
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"python2" and "python3" USE flags. Alas, the build system of |
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sys-libs/talloc seems to require python:2.6 or python:2.7. I would |
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suggest adding dev-lang/python:2.7 to the world file so as to protect it |
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from being reaped by emerge --depclean, only to be required again for |
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future builds. |
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Incidentally, one of the first things I do on a Gentoo system is mask |
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>=dev-lang/python-3.0 and rebuild affected packages against python-2.7. |
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I have yet to find a single instance where having both installed is |
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helpful. Even major applications such as Django still don't support Py3k. |
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Regarding the increase in compilation time, you could get a head start |
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by grabbing a binary package from tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org. |
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Cheers, |
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--Kerin |
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