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Subject: Re: What does py25 mean?
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On Tuesday 04 August 2009 17:28:59 matt donovan wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Lars Eighner 
<portsuser@larseighner.com>wrote:
> > What does py25 mean?
> >
> > I can't seem to upgrade about 40 ports (the old versions of which now
> > seem to be broken) evidently because the build of
> >
> > py25-gtk-2.13.1 fails with the message
> >
> >    py25-cairo-1.8.6 needs Python 2.6 at least. But you specified 2.5.
> >
> > Well, of *I* did not specify 2.5.

> yes it means python 2.5 most likely for cairo the py25 was not bumped to
> py26

No, the package name (or actually the PKGNAMEPREFIX) is dynamically created 
from the *detected* python version.
Also graphics/py-cairo has:
USE_PYTHON=     2.6+

Which signals that it cannot work with python 2.5. If you install 
lang/python26, it should work, tho I haven't checked.
-- 
Mel