Re: [gentoo-user] Python 2.7 removal : problem with Firefox + Spidermonkey

[james]

On 7/31/20 9:40 AM, Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 08:01:33PM -0400, james wrote
>
>> Me, palemoon is my fav browser and it seems to be long term stuck on
>> python 2.7...... Any suggests on a more secure, feature rich browser
>> other than palemoon would be interesting to me to at least test.
>
>    Pale Moon is a Firefox fork and has inherited this dependancy from it.
> I used to build Pale Moon manually on an older 32-bit CentOS chroot.
> That CentOS version only went up to python 2.4, which did not work.  I
> had to download a python 2.7 tarball and build it in the home dir (yes,
> it works).  The Pale Moon build toolchain found it and it built OK.  The
> steps are...
>
> #
> # Name it whatever you want
> mkdir pysource
> cd pysource
> wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.18/Python-2.7.18.tar.xz
> tar xf Py*
> cd Python-2.7.18
> #
> # Name it whatever you want
> ./configure --prefix=$HOME/py27
> make
> #
> # "su" or "sudo" is not required in the next step.  You have write
> # permission to your home directory.
> make install
>
>
>
>    The "make" command may take while to build, depending on RAM and CPU
> in your machine.  Afterwards you probably have to include...
>
> <dev-lang/python-3.0
>
> ..in package.mask and also...
>
> =dev-lang/python-2.7.18
>
> ..in package.provided.  Since the install in $HOME is not done by
> Portage, it'll be left alone.  You may still run into problems if an
> ebuild looks for python files via hard-coded paths in /usr.
>

I just use this:
/var/lib/layman/palemoon/www-client/palemoon

and www-client/palemoon 28.11.0 installs without issue.

Your method makes palemoon.28.11.0
install without any dependence on python.2_7 ?

The package build/install  for palemoon will not be part of 
portage.....? (if I'm understanding what you have written).

James