On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 2:42 AM, Alistair Bush <ali_b...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > > > Someone here want people install paludis? because when I've switched to > > python 3.0 just out of curiosity, it broke totally that python written > > package manager who is portage. > > So another package manager was needed to re-install a sane portage. > > No it wasn't. [1] You just didn't know that ( which is completely > understandable ). Just as you must not have understood the implications of > emerge -C python:2.6. I don't want to be mean but would you like to > enlighten > us as to how you managed to unemerge python:2.6 while using python3 when > portage didn't work with python3. > > [1] > http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/default-linux/amd64/dev-lang/python-2.6.2- > r1.tbz2 > > I did not unmerge <python-3, I was in hard multitasking mode so I could not reconstruct how it broken so badly, also tinderbox packages work better if the CFLAGS used are the same, which is not always true. > > > > Still, do you really want to have it in tree as stable? Really? > > Yes really. > > what said in the previous message which you snipped, eselect python should forget about >=python-3 is still valid IMHO