On Fri, 29 Jun 2018 09:48:07 +0200 j...@jgc.homeip.net wrote: > 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.
I would say those are exactly what should be removed. Its a whole lot of packages in the repos that have no reason to be there.