Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Python 2.7 support
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:09:16
Message-Id: 4B1D98EA.9000207@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Python 2.7 support by Neil Bothwick
1 Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Mon, 07 Dec 2009 08:47:41 -0600, Dale wrote:
3 >
4 >
5 >>> It's keyworded, but not masked. The recommendation, for ~arch users,
6 >>> is that you have it installed but leave 2.6 as the default.
7 >>>
8 >
9 >
10 >> It shows this here:
11 >>
12 >> [M~] dev-lang/python-3.1.1-r1 (3.1)
13 >>
14 >> Isn't that masked and keyworded? I'm x86 here and synced yesterday.
15 >>
16 >
17 > Have you masked it in /etc/portage? It's not masked here, no sign of
18 > it in /usr/portage/profile/package.mask, and I have it installed on ~amd64
19 > and ~x86 systems.
20 >
21 >
22
23 Actually, it is installed here. It's not in use but after my little
24 testing, I left it on here.
25
26 root@smoker / # equery list dev-lang/python
27 [ Searching for package 'python' in 'dev-lang' among: ]
28 * installed packages
29 [I--] [ ] dev-lang/python-2.6.4 (2.6)
30 [I--] [M~] dev-lang/python-3.1.1-r1 (3.1)
31 root@smoker / #
32
33 Dale
34
35 :-) :-)