On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, der.hans wrote:

> OK my laptop's getting full and I notice that I have 3 different pythons
> installed, 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3.

I have had similar situations ... and even worse because I had pythons
installed with threads support and without.

> Do I need all these beasts? /usr/bin/python is from 2.3.

I'd say no. In my experience with many python-using software installs, I
have just been using the latest python. (For example, I have started using
python 2.4 on Mac OS X.)

Only in a few cases, do I see old pythons are really required (like grail,
GnuPG interface module, and some versions of zope).

I don't know if you can remove your old python packages though ... because
other packages depending on them might have hard-coded paths to the old
python install.

You may be able to workaround it by using some symlinks though.

 Jeremy C. Reed

p.s. I use pkgsrc to build packages from source. Packages that need python
list what pythons are acceptable or it defaults to "depend" on the latest
version you have installed (if you have multiple pythons installed).

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