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On 9/12/19 10:13 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> As for getting around the first 3, you need to uninstall everything |
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> that depends on them and then unmerge them. I don't know how feasible |
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> that is, because some important packages probably depend on LLVM? Not |
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> sure. Right now, Python 2.7 is required for a useful desktop machine |
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> because important packages like Mesa probably depend on something |
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> that in turn uses Python 2.7. For a minimal system without X11 though |
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> you can probably do it. |
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Even on headless systems it's not completely possible at the moment. |
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At least spidermonkey aka mozjs is required by polkit and only builds |
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with python-2.7, thanks to their own !"§$% home-grown build system. |
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Mozilla are working on it and it should be fixed "by the end of the year". |
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Same for llvm-8 which still has a hard dependency on 2.7 as well. |
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The pending llvm-9 release will supposedly work with 3.x. |
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-h |
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