On July 29, 2020 3:28:50 AM EDT, "Michał Górny" <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote:
>On Wed, 2020-07-29 at 03:25 -0400, Aaron Bauman wrote:
>>
>> On July 29, 2020 2:49:14 AM EDT, Matt Turner <matts...@gentoo.org>
>wrote:
>> > On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 7:32 PM Aaron Bauman <b...@gentoo.org>
>wrote:
>> > > On July 28, 2020 9:57:44 PM EDT, Gordon Pettey
><petteyg...@gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> > > > That dependency is only if USE="-gnuefi". sys-boot/gnu-efi has
>no
>> > > > Python
>> > > > dependency. Instead of masking/removing refind, remove the USE
>flag
>> > and
>> > > > force the gnu-efi dependency, or reverse the condition, add
>> > > > IUSE="tianocore", and mask that USE flag.
>> > > >
>> > > > On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 7:06 PM Aaron Bauman <b...@gentoo.org>
>> > wrote:
>> > > > > On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 04:55:57PM -0700, Matt Turner wrote:
>> > > > > > On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 4:17 PM Aaron Bauman
><b...@gentoo.org>
>> > > > wrote:
>> > > > > > > sys-boot/refind
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > How did you conclude that this package depends on Python at
>all?
>> > > > > >
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Hi, Matt. It has a dependency on sys-boot/udk which was
>masked due
>> > to
>> > > > > using py2.7 only. Hope that helps.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > --
>> > > > > Cheers,
>> > > > > Aaron
>> > > > >
>> > >
>> > > That is for the maintainer to decide. Hence, all the previous
>> > discussions surrounding this topic. It is a massive undertaking to
>> > remove py2.7 from the tree.
>> >
>> > You've made a very strong case for filing bugs and asking
>maintainers
>> > to figure out what to do before masking packages for removal.
>>
>> Haven't we had this discussion before? Further, hasn't the community
>been made aware through multiple channels of the impending removal of
>Py2?
>>
>
>Sure, and I don't mind removing packages that clearly don't support py3
>and whose maintainers have done nothing about that. However, I do mind
>removing packages that do support py3 and that ended up on the list
>probably because some deep indirect dep had some kind of py2 usage
>problem (that I had no reason to know about), maybe because it's any-r1
>or had optional USE=python...
This is exactly how it went before. No one is saying "it's your fault". Fix
whatever the issue is and remove it from the list.
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