commit:     68e935c1c9aa94933ec030a382950c13f89d9275
Author:     Fabian Groffen <grobian <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
AuthorDate: Sun Aug  2 07:55:50 2020 +0000
Commit:     Fabian Groffen <grobian <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
CommitDate: Sun Aug  2 07:57:55 2020 +0000
URL:        https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=68e935c1

profiles/prefix/package.mask: mask python:2.7

The version available in Prefix has security issues, and nothing should
need it anymore.  Prefix went for a while with
PYTHON_TARGETS="-python2_7" so this should not be a big shock, except
for that have python2 installed and still use it.

Signed-off-by: Fabian Groffen <grobian <AT> gentoo.org>

 profiles/prefix/package.mask | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/profiles/prefix/package.mask b/profiles/prefix/package.mask
index a5b0d5ffa13..0003ee99555 100644
--- a/profiles/prefix/package.mask
+++ b/profiles/prefix/package.mask
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 #
 # When you add an entry to the top of this file, add your name, the date, and
@@ -8,6 +8,13 @@
 # NOTE: Please add your entry at the top!
 #
 
+# Fabian Groffen <[email protected]> (2020-08-02)
+# Python 2 is no longer supported
+# Recent Portage releases no longer supports Python 2, and the version
+# available in the Prefix tree has security issues.  If you still need
+# Python 2, you should really look into moving away from it.
+dev-lang/python:2.7
+
 # Fabian Groffen <[email protected]> (2017-04-15)
 # reentrant patch breaks prefix option, bug #615560
 =sys-devel/flex-2.6.3-r1

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