Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: */*: More Py2 stuff

[Michał Górny]

On Tue, 2020-07-28 at 22:32 -0400, Aaron Bauman wrote:
>
> On July 28, 2020 9:57:44 PM EDT, Gordon Pettey <petteyg359@×××××.com> wrote:
> > That dependency is only if USE="-gnuefi". sys-boot/gnu-efi has no
> > Python
> > dependency. Instead of masking/removing refind, remove the USE flag and
> > force the gnu-efi dependency, or reverse the condition, add
> > IUSE="tianocore", and mask that USE flag.
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 7:06 PM Aaron Bauman <bman@g.o> wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 04:55:57PM -0700, Matt Turner wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 4:17 PM Aaron Bauman <bman@g.o>
> > wrote:
> > > > > sys-boot/refind
> > > >
> > > > How did you conclude that this package depends on Python at all?
> > > >
> > >
> > > Hi, Matt. It has a dependency on sys-boot/udk which was masked due to
> > > using py2.7 only. Hope that helps.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Cheers,
> > > Aaron
> > >
>
> That is for the maintainer to decide. Hence, all the previous discussions surrounding this topic. It is a massive undertaking to remove py2.7 from the tree.
>

It is a massive undertaking to figure out which of the deep dependencies
made you conclude to list perfectly maintained Python 3-only packages.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny