Re: [gentoo-user] python 2 deprecation

[james]

On 1/25/20 9:59 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 12:20 PM james <garftd@×××××××.net> wrote:
>>
>> I have removed all syntax/expressions from
>> /etc/portage/make.conf
>>
>> related to python; hoping python-2 would just die a natural, slow and
>> painless (for me) death, on this ancient gentoo install.
>>
>> Any and all comments related to what to check/do are most welcome,
>> related to removing python-2*
>
> Disclaimer: I'm not involved with the python team, so details could
> change around this...
>
> Right now that is your best bet.  If you don't care about python,
> avoid specifying python-related flags in your config files.  Then
> portage will just apply defaults wherever possible.  It doesn't always
> work, but that is mainly when packages can only support one version of
> python at a time (which isn't too many of them).
>
> As long as you aren't going crazy with accepting keywords then the
> profiles should be updated so that python versions are removed only
> after all the packages that depend on them have been removed, ideally
> with newer v3 packages having been stabilized.  I suspect this process
> will drag out for months as everybody involved realizes that migrating
> can be painful but it has to be done, so expect packages to steadily
> get masked and to see v2 stuff start disappearing once the packages
> that depend on them are gone.  Users can always do overlays if they
> want to maintain their own v2 forks, but I suspect this will be a lot
> of work.  Maybe somebody will step up and do it but I'm not seeing
> many signs of it.
>
> Some packages in Gentoo just aren't super well-maintained and so
> upstream might have v3 packages that aren't in the repo.  Bugs and
> especially pull requests will doubtless be welcomed in these cases.
> Just about every major distro is pushing to get rid of v2 so upstreams
> that are dragging their feet are going to have motivation to fix
> things or they just won't have any users left.
>
> I'm sure at some point there will be a news announcement if users
> actually need to do anything.  I doubt the rug will just get pulled
> out from under you.  Even the package masks can be unmasked for 30
> days until the packages start getting pulled which gives you a bit of
> pain-free time to deal with it.
>

Thx Rich.

James