james wrote: > On 1/25/20 10:00 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 12:20 PM james <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I have removed all syntax/expressions from >>> /etc/portage/make.conf >>> >>> related to python; hoping python-2 would just die a natural, slow and >>> painless (for me) death, on this ancient gentoo install. >>> >>> Any and all comments related to what to check/do are most welcome, >>> related to removing python-2* >> >> Disclaimer: I'm not involved with the python team, so details could >> change around this... >> >> Right now that is your best bet. If you don't care about python, >> avoid specifying python-related flags in your config files. Then >> portage will just apply defaults wherever possible. It doesn't always >> work, but that is mainly when packages can only support one version of >> python at a time (which isn't too many of them). >> >> As long as you aren't going crazy with accepting keywords then the >> profiles should be updated so that python versions are removed only >> after all the packages that depend on them have been removed, ideally >> with newer v3 packages having been stabilized. I suspect this process >> will drag out for months as everybody involved realizes that migrating >> can be painful but it has to be done, so expect packages to steadily >> get masked and to see v2 stuff start disappearing once the packages >> that depend on them are gone. Users can always do overlays if they >> want to maintain their own v2 forks, but I suspect this will be a lot >> of work. Maybe somebody will step up and do it but I'm not seeing >> many signs of it. >> >> Some packages in Gentoo just aren't super well-maintained and so >> upstream might have v3 packages that aren't in the repo. Bugs and >> especially pull requests will doubtless be welcomed in these cases. >> Just about every major distro is pushing to get rid of v2 so upstreams >> that are dragging their feet are going to have motivation to fix >> things or they just won't have any users left. >> >> I'm sure at some point there will be a news announcement if users >> actually need to do anything. I doubt the rug will just get pulled >> out from under you. Even the package masks can be unmasked for 30 >> days until the packages start getting pulled which gives you a bit of >> pain-free time to deal with it. >> > > > thx, > > just a test via another mail-route. curious if it works > >
FYI, it came through but the threading was broken. It appeared here as a new thread. Dale :-) :-)
