Re: [gentoo-user] using python 2.7

[Paige Thompson]

Sorry for the dumb message, I figured out how to use eselect python (the
syntax is a little weird and not very well documented.) This fixed my
issue as near as I can tell.

On 11/04/14 17:16, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Paige Thompson <erratic@××××××××××.sx> wrote:
>> RIP python 3
>>
>> how do I get rid of it
> It's possible that you can't. Some (or many) packages could depend on
> Python 2.7 because they don't work with Python 3.x. You can check that
> with:
>
> equery depends dev-lang/python:2.7
>
> In my main system (full GNOME 3 desktop), 174 packages depend on
> Python 2.7. Some of them probably can be made to work only with Python
> 3.x, but I'm willing to bet that the majority doesn't.
>
> Maybe in the future, but I don't think it will be possible for at
> least a few years.
>
> Regards.