Re: [gentoo-user] python variables

[Adam Carter]

On Sat, Oct 3, 2020 at 9:50 AM William Kenworthy  wrote:

> Hi, I am still having problems with the python settings.  There a lot of
> articals online for python on Gentoo but they all seem to miss a simple
> point: a list of what the current default should be:
>
> should there be nothing in a properly configured system (all handled
> automaticly)
>

I leave everything at the defaults, unless there's something that i'm
certain I want to achieve. This goes for all settings, including USE, and i
usually use package.use rather than USE= in make.conf.

So for me there's no specific python/ruby etc settings in make.conf, but
there's still eselect, and i generally keep away from the newest and oldest.

Try unsetting python settings in make.conf and run an emerge -avuUD world
to see what you get.

BTW, for ~arch users python:2.7 is pretty much gone. For me, I just have
some gnome stuff which depends on dev-libs/gjs, which depends on
dev-lang/spidermonkey:68 which depends on python:2.7.

[gentoo-user] python variables

[William Kenworthy]

Hi, I am still having problems with the python settings.  There a lot of
articals online for python on Gentoo but they all seem to miss a simple
point: a list of what the current default should be:

should there be nothing in a properly configured system (all handled
automaticly)

PYTHON_TARGETS etc listed in package.use, or should it be in make.conf -
lots of variation!

Should 2.7 be listed at all still?  Chasing the emerge breakage trying
to get this right is getting old fast :(


e.g., I am using the following in make.conf for a system that only needs
python 3.8 (with 3.7 just in case I need it) ... for other systems
should I specify what I think is rrequired, or leave blank?

USE_PYTHON="3.8"
PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_8 python3_7"
PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_8"

BillK