PYTHON_VERSIONS_ACCEPTED=27 That would be a min-version, right? What of Python v3.9 is already installed? I just dont like the thought of having 3 versions of Python installed if I only need one of those versions. OF COURSE, if Python v 2.7 got installed first, there is not much that can be done...
On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 5:59 PM Chavdar Ivanov <ci4...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, 17 Sept 2021 at 22:16, Todd Gruhn <tgru...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I noticed that I often get Python checked and/or installed when I > > build software. > > > > I currently have 3 versions of Python on my system. > > > > If the package requires Python-2.7, how well will it work if > > Python-3.8 is already > > installed? Can I tell pkgtools to skip installing Python if a certain ver of > > Python is already installed? Is this advisable? > > If a package requires specifically python version 2.7, it will be > installed, as well as all the relevant modules; you may have already, > say, PYTHON_VERSION_DEFAULT=39 in /etc/mk.conf, but if a package > specifies another version, it will get it. Usually there are no > problems with this, except when a package installs executables without > the version of python appended to the name. > > I recently switched my primary development machine from python3.7 to > 3.9, replacing all modules and rebuilding all packages requiring > python v.3, it took me some time, but eventually I was able to remove > python38 and python37, I am left at the moment only with python27 and > 39. There are still quite a few packages with PYTHON_VERSIONS_ACCEPTED > = 27. > > > -- > ----
