Howdy, As some know, python 2.7 is leaving the building. I'm wanting to try to clean it out a bit now, a little at a time if needed. I found some commands on -dev that shows what still depends on python 2.7. Thing is, I think it is listing packages that *may* use 2.7 but can or is set to use a newer version. In other words, I'm getting false positives. Another command returns nothing and I think that command shows what requires *only* python 2.7 and no newer version. Thing is, when I do a emerge -ac python:2.7, it spits out a list of packages that says they need it. It's confusing to say the least. I think I'm on information overload or something.
What I don't want to do, add targets to make.conf that may change defaults later on. In other words, I don't want to add the target line and then later on forget it is there and it bite me when say 3.6 is leaving the building. I think if I can get it to where I can remove python 2.7's package, it will leave it buried. How to get there tho?? I don't want to attach a ton of info that may not be relevant. I'm going to share this tho. If anyone needs more info, let me know and I'll post it. root@fireball / # emerge -ca python:2.7 Calculating dependencies... done! dev-lang/python-2.7.18 pulled in by: app-doc/gimp-help-2.8.2 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7 app-office/scribus-1.5.5-r1 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7 app-portage/gemato-14.3 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7[threads(+)] dev-lang/spidermonkey-1.8.5-r7 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7[threads] dev-lang/spidermonkey-60.5.2_p0-r4 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7[ncurses,sqlite,ssl,threads] dev-libs/boost-1.72.0-r1 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7 dev-libs/libxml2-2.9.9-r3 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7[xml] dev-python/PyQt5-5.14.2 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7 dev-python/PyQt5-sip-4.19.22 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7 dev-python/PySocks-1.7.1 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7 dev-python/backports-1.0 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7 dev-python/backports-lzma-0.0.13 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7 dev-python/bz2file-0.98 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7 dev-python/certifi-2019.11.28 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7 dev-python/cffi-1.14.0 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7 dev-python/chardet-3.0.4 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7 dev-python/cryptography-2.8-r1 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7[threads(+)] dev-python/cython-0.29.15 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7[threads(+)] dev-python/dbus-python-1.2.16 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7[threads(+)] dev-python/docutils-0.16 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7 dev-python/enum34-1.1.6-r1 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7 dev-python/idna-2.8 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7 dev-python/ipaddress-1.0.23 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7 dev-python/lxml-4.5.0 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7 dev-python/mako-1.1.2 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7 dev-python/markupsafe-1.1.1 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7 dev-python/numpy-1.16.5-r1 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7[threads(+)] dev-python/olefile-0.46 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7 dev-python/pathlib2-2.3.5 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7 dev-python/pbr-4.2.0-r1 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7[threads(+)] dev-python/pillow-6.2.2 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7[threads(+)] dev-python/ply-3.11 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7 dev-python/pyblake2-1.1.2 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7 dev-python/pycairo-1.18.2 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7[threads(+)] dev-python/pyclipper-1.1.0 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7 dev-python/pycparser-2.20 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7 dev-python/pycryptodome-3.9.4 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7[threads(+)] dev-python/pygments-2.5.2 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7 dev-python/pygobject-2.28.6-r55 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7 dev-python/pygobject-3.34.0 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7 dev-python/pygtk-2.24.0-r5 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7 dev-python/pyopengl-3.1.0 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7 dev-python/pyopenssl-19.1.0 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7[threads(+)] dev-python/python-gammu-2.11 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7 dev-python/pyyaml-5.3.1 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7 dev-python/requests-2.23.0 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7[threads(+)] dev-python/scandir-1.10.0-r1 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7 dev-python/setuptools-44.1.0 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7[xml(+)] dev-python/setuptools-git-1.2 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7 dev-python/setuptools_scm-3.5.0 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7 dev-python/setuptools_scm_git_archive-1.0 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7 dev-python/sip-4.19.22 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7 dev-python/six-1.14.0 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7 dev-python/urllib3-1.25.8 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7[ssl(+)] dev-python/wxpython-3.0.2.0 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7 dev-qt/qtwebengine-5.14.2 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7 dev-util/scons-3.1.2 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7[threads(+)] media-gfx/gimp-2.10.18-r1 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7 media-plugins/gimp-resynthesizer-2.0.3-r3 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7 media-video/devede-3.23.0 requires =dev-lang/python-2.7* net-libs/farstream-0.2.8-r2 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7 sci-electronics/geda-xgsch2pcb-0.1.3-r5 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7 sys-apps/dstat-0.7.4-r1 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7 sys-power/nut-2.7.4-r4 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7 virtual/python-cffi-0 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7 www-client/firefox-75.0-r3 requires dev-lang/python:2.7[ncurses,sqlite,ssl,threads(+)] www-client/seamonkey-2.53.1-r1 requires dev-lang/python:2.7[ncurses,sqlite,ssl,threads(+)] x11-misc/fbpanel-7.0 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7 >>> No packages selected for removal by depclean Packages installed: 1718 Packages in world: 223 Packages in system: 43 Required packages: 1718 Number removed: 0 root@fireball / # Thoughts?? Based on -dev, this should be very few packages. I even removed several dead out of tree but was installed packages that I no longer use. Still, long list. Looking for ideas? Thanks. Dale :-) :-) :-)
