Hello,
On Fri, 13 Sep 2019, Philip Webb wrote:
>190913 Franz Fellner wrote:
>> 190913 schrieb Philip Webb
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>>> 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):
>> DEPEND="virtual/pkgconfig
>> dev-lang/python:2.7[ncurses,sqlite,ssl,threads(+)]
>> ${PYTHON_DEPS}"
>
>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 ?
$ qfile `man -w mozcoreconf-v6.eclass`
app-doc/eclass-manpages (/usr/share/man/man5/mozcoreconf-v6.eclass.5.gz)
HTH,
-dnh
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