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From: Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] python-2.7 && python-updater
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 19:23:09
Message-Id: AANLkTi=R89LO07LPXyUoGhP-0kkOdSBdeGNmEffuwhmt@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] python-2.7 && python-updater by "Stéphane Guedon"
1 >> > One of my machines just saw a python-2.7 update and the ebuild was
2 >> > good enough to remind me to run python-updater, but it didn't suggest
3 >> > that I run eselect python and set the active version to 2.7.
4 >> >
5 >> > Should this new version python be selected first as the active python
6 >> > 2 version and then run python-updater?
7 >> >
8 >> > Thanks,
9 >> > Mark
10 >>
11 >> And if we should set python to 2.7, should we remove python-2.6?  I
12 >> don't think we want to break something, portage in particular.  ;-)
13 >>
14 >> Dale
15 >>
16 >> :-)  :-)
17 >
18 > I think wicd rely on python 2.6 currently. This is my setup on my laptop !
19 > (trying other version break networking with wicd).
20
21 It looks like the latest wicd in portage supports python-2.7:
22
23 http://bugs.gentoo.org/333001
24
25 - Grant