-- Jacques
Site : http://sites.google.com/site/jacquesfr35/ Le 09/06/2010 16:26, Dale a gentiment tapote: > Jacques Montier wrote: >> Le 09/06/2010 15:17, walt a gentiment tapote: >> >>> On 06/09/2010 03:32 AM, Jacques Montier wrote: >>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> After upgrading world, i installed python-3.1.2-r3 with already >>>> installed python-2.6.4-r1 >>>> As recommended, i ran python-updater ; so python-updater added some >>>> packages to the list as : >>>> app-office/openoffice-bin:0 >>>> dev-lang/-MERGING-python:2.5 >>>> ... >>>> >>>> The output is an error about dev-lang/-MERGING-python:2.5 as invalid >>>> atom ! >>>> Where does that "-MERGING-" come from ? >>>> >>> Which version of python are you actually using now? AFAIK the portage >>> utilities >>> don't yet work correctly if you are using python-3. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> I use python2.6, but both 2.6 and 3.1 are installed. >> >> Jacques >> >> > > Just for the record, installing python 3.1 is fine but DON'T switch to > it. Very little works with it right now. There was a HUGE discussion > about this on -dev. It's confusing because python 3.1 is stable but > you can't switch to it yet since not much is ready for it. > > The best thing to do is to mask python 3.1 until you can actually > switch to it. That is what most devs are recommending. If you don't > have something that has to have it, mask it for now. > > Dale > > :-) :-) > > with eselect python list, i get this : # Available Python interpreters: [1] python2.6 * [2] python3.1 So python2.6 is the main active version ; therefore is it necessary to mask it ? Jacques
