On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 20:59 +0100, Patrick Lauer wrote: > On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 09:13 -0800, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 05:45:22PM +0100, Patrick Lauer wrote: > > > Now I'm wondering - is there a sane way of handling this that doesn't > > > forcefully remove python 2.4? > > > e.g. could python modules be installed to multiple python versions? How > > > do others (ruby, perl, ...) handle it? For the moment I've "solved" that > > > by package.masking python 2.4, unmerging it and rebuilding all Python > > > modules - less than optimal ... > > See dev-python/validation-1.2.3 for another solution. > > It installs itself for all versions of Python that are on the system. > I don't fully understand the magic how it finds all Python versions, but can > this be applied to other packages? > Are there reasons for not doing this (besides increasing build time)? > > Also - how does portage react to "multi-installing" packages?
This question seems better suited for the portage mailing list. -- solar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo Linux -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
