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From: Mike Kazantsev <mk.fraggod@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Installing python packages for different versions
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 23:02:01
Message-Id: 20090615045915.6df6d40b@coercion
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Installing python packages for different versions by Florian Philipp
1 On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 19:53:38 +0200
2 Florian Philipp <lists@f_philipp.fastmail.net> wrote:
3
4 > eselect maintains a list of all enabled python slots and a primary one,
5 > not just the primary one like now. If nothing else is specified, every
6 > program uses this primary python version (just like now). Portage
7 > installs or symlinks all files which end up in the site-packages
8 > directory in the respective directories for every python slot enabled by
9 > eselect.
10
11 Many packages use C libs, linked against specific version of python.so
12 library, so running it with another python version than it was compiled
13 with will yield unpredictable results - it might work for 2.4-2.5 but
14 I'm pretty sure it won't for 2.6-3.1.
15
16 --
17 Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net

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