Index: mercurial-2.5.2.ebuild
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RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/dev-vcs/mercurial/mercurial-2.5.2.ebuild,v
--- mercurial-2.5.2.ebuild	8 Mar 2013 13:00:57 -0000	1.1
+++ mercurial-2.5.2.ebuild	8 Mar 2013 16:18:29 -0000
@@ -37,18 +37,12 @@ 
 	distutils-r1_python_prepare_all
 }
 
-# XXX: temporary, needed to get ${PYTHON} set
-# https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=460016
-python_configure() {
-	:
-}
-
 python_configure_all() {
 	strip-flags -ftracer -ftree-vectorize
 	# Note: make it impl-conditional if py3 is supported
 	append-flags -fno-strict-aliasing
 
-	"${PYTHON:-python}" setup.py build_mo || die
+	"${PYTHON}" setup.py build_mo || die
 }
 
 python_compile_all() {