On 01/11/2013 15:41, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: > On Thu, Oct 31 2013, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: > >> On Sun, Oct 27 2013, Mike Gilbert wrote: >> >>> Making things "just work" is complex when trying to juggle 6 or more >>> supported versions/implementations of python. >> >> Indeed. >> >>> We have tried to explain the magic make.conf lines in the Python user guide. >>> >>> https://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/Python/python-r1/user-guide.xml >>> >>> We also try to make sure that most users never have to touch >>> PYTHON_TARGETS, etc; the default values provided by your profile are >>> set up to allow *stable* python2.7 and python3.2 to work properly. >> >>> ~arch users are expected to read the docs. ^_^ >> >> I am a ~amd64 user and I just read the user-guide. :-) >> I do not see any action items for my system; but do see a large number >> of reinstalls proposed by emerge >> >> I do not change any python variables in make.conf so emerge --info shows >> PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" >> PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_2" >> >> a recursive grep -i for python in /etc/portage yields only >> ./package.use/imaging-pillow:5:virtual/python-imaging >> -python_targets_python3_2 >> >> So I basically have the default except for the imaging/pillow business. >> >> I note that update world wants to rebuild a bunch of packages (the >> entire output is below). Some are qt-related others involve >> PYTHON_TARGETS. >> >> Does this mean that I can let the 44 packages / 38 reinstalls update occur >> and expect a running system to result? It is unusual, but I realize not >> unprecedented, to have so many reinstalls and I would like to confirm >> that this is expected. >> >> thanks, >> allan > > I realize that I forgot to attach the list of packages emerge wants to > reinstall. So I did the same emerge command (I always use --ask) and > they are *gone*. This I don't understand since I didn't sync inbetween > (ls -lt /usr/portage shows nothing since wednesday). > > I though all dependencies, etc are resolved locally so why would it > change from 44 packages with 38 reinstalls to 4 packages with no > reinstalls?
Did you make any changes to make.conf between your previous mail and doing this last test? -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com