Re: [gentoo-user] Python 2.7 removal : problem with Firefox + Spidermonkey

[james]

On 7/29/20 1:21 PM, Simon Thelen wrote:
> [2020-07-29 13:11] Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net>
> Hi,
>> I've removed every other pkg which might require Python-2.7,
>> but am stuck with this :
>>
>>    root:605 ~> emerge -cpv python:2.7
>>
>>    Calculating dependencies... done!
>>    dev-lang/python-2.7.18-r1 pulled in by:
>>      dev-lang/spidermonkey-60.5.2_p0-r4 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7[ncurses,sqlite,ssl,threads]
>>      www-client/firefox-68.10.0 requires dev-lang/python:2.7[ncurses,sqlite,ssl,threads(+)]
>>
>> Yes, I've looked in  package.use  & in the ebuilds
>> & can't find any source of these requirements : can anyone help ?
> The dependencies on python2.7 are being added by the mozcoreconf
> eclasses.  The firefox requirement is in eclass/mozcoreconf-v6.eclass,
> spidermonkey has essentially the same thing but in -v5.eclass
>

I'm down to (9) or so. Periodically, I use this command to see where I am::


eix --installed-with-use python_targets_python2_7

and in the top of my package.use I have::

*/* PYTHON_TARGETS: python3_6 python3_7 python3_8 python3_9

*/* PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET: -* python3_7
*/* PYTHON_TARGETS: -python2_7


There are many variants on these approaches, depending on how 
aggressively you want to get rid of python 2_7.

Me, palemoon is my fav browser and it seems to be long term stuck on 
python 2.7...... Any suggests on a more secure, feature rich browser 
other than palemoon would be interesting to me to at least test.

But, this is a system, with thousands of packages from gentoo 
(gentrified) proper, and dozens of other hacks.
and dozens of my own (rev-5) ebuilds I'm too lazy/stupid to update to 
(rev-7). If I were only smarter and motivated......


As I age, I'm getting lazier; and that includes all things gentoo....

hth,
James