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On Sun, 24 May 2009 01:52:45 -0700 |
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Keith Dart <keith@×××××××××.biz> wrote: |
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> On Sat, 23 May 2009 19:08:50 -0300 |
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> Jorge Morais <please.no.spam.here@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > Now, I do have concerns about your system having remains of multiple |
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> > python installations. |
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> > Any person with python knowledge can give an opinion on whether this |
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> > is dangerous? And what is the easiest way to clean the mess? |
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> Python is designed to work with multiple versions installed. Therefore, |
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> the ebuild is also slotted so you can have multiple versions installed. |
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> Use "eselect python" to choose which one you want to use as the |
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> default. Also, don't forget to run python-updater after recent changes |
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> that installed Python 2.6 for you. You can always unmerge the specific |
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> old version afterwards. e.g. |
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> "emerge --unmerge =dev-lang/python-2.5.4-r2" |
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You don't seem to have taken into account that he has installed |
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multiple vanilla python versions *manually* (with ./configure, make, and |
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make install as root), to /usr, and then installed Python with Portage. |
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