On Thu, 8 Mar 2018 10:11:23 -0600 Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >Ken Moffat wrote: > > I admire your optimism that you will be able to build (what I assume > > is) a desktop system without python2. > > Hazel, > > python is mentioned in 176 files in BLFS, but only 42 of those are > python3. In any reasonable workstation system, both versions will be > needed. If you are creating a server of some type (file, web, database, > mail, etc) you might be able to avoid python2. > > -- Bruce I'll have to install it then, as a graphical desktop is essential. But two pythons still looks to me like bloat. In all my previous builds, I've been able to avoid python3 altogether. On the other hand, I must say I'm impressed with ninja. I built glib yesterday and it took only a fraction of the time it used to take using make. -- Hazel -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style