Subj : Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : Benny Pedersen
Date : Sat Aug 11 2018 20:34:26

Hello Maurice!

11 Aug 2018 19:30, Maurice Kinal wrote to Benny Pedersen:

 MK> Firefox and the like.  Also I believe there are some specific python3 
 MK> apps used for development tools not too unlike cmake.

+1

 MK> Everything 
 MK> else, such as mesalibs, still require python2 and thus the additional 
 MK> bloat; both python2 and python3.

-1, if not much intrest to drop python2 it will survice longer

 BP>> is your plan to make portage in bash ?
 MK> No.

+1

.....
 MK> even glibc requires to be available when building despite the fact it 
 MK> adds too much bloat for what little actual use I personally have for 
 MK> it.

glib have not depending on python2 anymore on gentoo, but just defaults to it 

   ----- glib.ebuild begins -----
[I] dev-libs/glib
     Available versions:  (2) 2.52.3 ~2.54.3-r6
       {dbus debug fam +mime selinux static-libs systemtap test utils xattr 
ABI_MIPS="n32 n64 o32" ABI_PPC="32 64" ABI_S390="32 64" ABI_X86="32 64 x32" 
KERNEL="linux" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7 python3_5 python3_6 python3_7" 
PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_5 python3_6 python3_7"}
     Installed versions:  2.52.3(2)(23:48:32 04/10/18)(mime xattr -dbus -debug 
-fam -selinux -static-libs -systemtap -test -utils ABI_MIPS="-n32 -n64 -o32" 
ABI_PPC="-32 -64" ABI_S390="-32 -64" ABI_X86="64 -32 -x32" KERNEL="linux" 
PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7")
     Homepage:            https://www.gtk.org/
     Description:         The GLib library of C routines

   ----- glib.ebuild ends -----

maybe try python 3.7 ? :)


 Regards Benny

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