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From: Simon Thelen <gentoo-user@××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Python 2.7 removal : problem with Firefox + Spidermonkey
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2020 17:21:34
Message-Id: 20200729172130.0C016E0D1B@pigeon.gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Python 2.7 removal : problem with Firefox + Spidermonkey by Philip Webb
1 [2020-07-29 13:11] Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net>
2 Hi,
3 > I've removed every other pkg which might require Python-2.7,
4 > but am stuck with this :
5 >
6 > root:605 ~> emerge -cpv python:2.7
7 >
8 > Calculating dependencies... done!
9 > dev-lang/python-2.7.18-r1 pulled in by:
10 > dev-lang/spidermonkey-60.5.2_p0-r4 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7[ncurses,sqlite,ssl,threads]
11 > www-client/firefox-68.10.0 requires dev-lang/python:2.7[ncurses,sqlite,ssl,threads(+)]
12 >
13 > Yes, I've looked in package.use & in the ebuilds
14 > & can't find any source of these requirements : can anyone help ?
15 The dependencies on python2.7 are being added by the mozcoreconf
16 eclasses. The firefox requirement is in eclass/mozcoreconf-v6.eclass,
17 spidermonkey has essentially the same thing but in -v5.eclass
18
19 --
20 Simon Thelen