Jelle van der Waa schreef op 2018-06-27 21:35:
Hi All,
Our repository contains a lot of python2 modules which are required by
any package in the repository. I'd like to propose to remove these
modules pre-emptively since they serve no purpose and python2 is dead.
We should strive to be a modern distro, so promoting Python3 should be
a
big part of it :)
Please reply if you have objections.
A list of modules / programs can be obtained as following or viewed
here
[1]
$ pacman -Sqs python2 > list
$ expac -S '%n %N' -l ' ' - < list | awk NF==1
[1] http://pkgbuild.com/~jelle/python2_modules.txt
Python 2.7 is supported until 2020, that's 18 months from now. I agree
that we should limit the orphaned python2 modules as much as possible,
but please don't kill the ones that are built from a split package that
also builds python3 packages. This would mean removing the python2 parts
from the PKGBUILD, moving the python2 part to AUR and create a lot of
duplicated effort when updating these packages.
