[mythtv-users] Gentoo install problem

[Saul]

On Thu, 10 Sep 2015 00:27:19 +0200
Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hoi Saul,
> 
> 
> > Below is what I get. Regardless whether system python is set to 2.7
> > or 3.4. Will install git and see how much that helps.

> Lets explain a bit better. 2.7, 3.3 and 3.4 can all three be installed
> together on a Gentoo system. They are different slots. Next to the
> slots you have python2 and python3 Until the end of July 3.3 was the
> default for python3. On July 25th they switched on Gentoo to 3.4. So
> if you install a Gentoo system with a CD from after that date,
> possibly python 3.3 is no longer installed by default. My assumption
> is that that python package (or at least the setup) doesn't like 3.4,
> which isn't a problem if you have installed both, probably even if the
> python3 default is set to 3.4.
> So my suggestion was to emerge python3.3 if not installed and to set
> python3 to 3.3 and then see if the error still occurs. If it now works
> OK, you should file a bug at Gentoo, so they can change the
> dependencies.

Actually, here's the beginning of ebuild:

# Copyright 1999-2015 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Id$

EAPI=5

PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 )


-- 
Cheers, Saul