Talk:Python

Slotting questions
'emerge --ask --depclean dev-lang/python' and 'eselect python cleanup' only deal the previous python version(such as python3.7). If I run 'emerge --ask --changed-use --deep @world', python 3.9 will be installed.

If I only want to install python3.8 not python3.9 or higher version. I need to add '>=dev-lang/python-3.9' to '/etc/portage/package.mask'. Is there any other way?

--Soymilk (talk) 13:56, 13 July 2020 (UTC)

Upgrading Python
It is such a drag, this time again with the change from Python3.7 to Python3.8. So many conflicts. And then there are these mysterious two all controlling variables PYTHON_TARGETS and PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET, which are never properly explained. You can set them in, and/or in. And there are is different syntax for these as well. It would be so awesome if it was clearly explained what these variables do. Hfern (talk) 18:22, 12 December 2020 (UTC)