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From: David Haller <gentoo@×××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: Franz Fellner <alpine.art.de@×××××.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem dropping Python 2.7
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2019 01:42:16
Message-Id: 20190914014129.ayz75dlrlwshan5h@grusum.endjinn.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem dropping Python 2.7 by Philip Webb
1 Hello,
2
3 On Fri, 13 Sep 2019, Philip Webb wrote:
4 >190913 Franz Fellner wrote:
5 >> 190913 schrieb Philip Webb
6 [..]
7 >>> What is telling Portage that Firefox needs Python-2.7 ?
8 >> python:2.7 DEP in firefox is coming from mozcoreconf-v6.eclass
9 >> (through mozconfig-v6.60.eclass):
10 >> DEPEND="virtual/pkgconfig
11 >> dev-lang/python:2.7[ncurses,sqlite,ssl,threads(+)]
12 >> ${PYTHON_DEPS}"
13 >
14 >Thanks ! -- in 16 years using Gentoo, I've never come across eclasses.
15 >I see they are listed in /usr/portage/eclass .
16 >Is there a doc which describes what they are & what they do ?
17
18 $ qfile `man -w mozcoreconf-v6.eclass`
19 app-doc/eclass-manpages (/usr/share/man/man5/mozcoreconf-v6.eclass.5.gz)
20
21 HTH,
22 -dnh
23
24 --
25 Less is more or less more