Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem dropping Python 2.7

2019-09-13 Thread Philip Webb
190912 David Haller wrote: > On Thu, 12 Sep 2019, Philip Webb wrote: >> I'm now left with 5 problem pkgs : >> llvm-7.1.0 fetchmail-6.3.26-r4 qtwebkit-5.212.0_pre20180120 > For fetchmail, unset the 'tk'-useflag: > + + tk : Enable support for Tk GUI toolkit, > in particular it installs

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem dropping Python 2.7

2019-09-13 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Thu, 12 Sep 2019, Philip Webb wrote: >I'm now left with 5 problem pkgs : > > llvm-7.1.0 fetchmail-6.3.26-r4 qtwebkit-5.212.0_pre20180120 [..] >Can anyone explain (1) how to get around the 1st 3 ebuilds For fetchmail, unset the 'tk'-useflag: + + tk : Enable

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem dropping Python 2.7

2019-09-13 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Fri, 13 Sep 2019, Philip Webb wrote: >190913 Franz Fellner wrote: >> 190913 schrieb Philip Webb [..] >>> What is telling Portage that Firefox needs Python-2.7 ? >> python:2.7 DEP in firefox is coming from mozcoreconf-v6.eclass >> (through mozconfig-v6.60.eclass): >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem dropping Python 2.7

2019-09-13 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 01:24:48AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote > 190912 Holger Hoffstätte wrote: > > At least spidermonkey aka mozjs is required by polkit and only builds > > with python-2.7, thanks to their own !"§$% home-grown build system. > > Mozilla are working on it and it should be fixed "by

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem dropping Python 2.7

2019-09-13 Thread Francesco Turco
On Fri, Sep 13, 2019, at 09:21, Philip Webb wrote: > Thanks ! -- in 16 years using Gentoo, I've never come across eclasses. > I see they are listed in /usr/portage/eclass . > Is there a doc which describes what they are & what they do ? https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Eclass

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem dropping Python 2.7

2019-09-13 Thread Philip Webb
190913 Franz Fellner wrote: > 190913 schrieb Philip Webb >> What about Firefox ? >> -- trying to unmerge Python-2.7 tells me that Firefox-60.8.0 requires >> "python 2.7.5-r2:2.7[ncurses sqlite ssl threads]". >> That Firefox ebuild does indeed require those flags, >> but it also contains