Re: [gentoo-dev] Migrate away from python-2 or not

2019-12-03 Thread Benda Xu
Hi guys, Thank you very much for your comments. I have made up my mind to just help remove python 2.7. Actually, a lot of efforts are ongoing, for example, https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/13771 Cheers, Benda

Re: [gentoo-dev] Migrate away from python-2 or not

2019-11-29 Thread Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier
[2019-11-29 14:49:12+0100] Mathy Vanvoorden: > > I tried removing python2 on a handful of test systems over the last week > > ... it's back everywhere. > > > > > I attempted the same over the last couple of days as I was thinking "It's > going anyway, why not get a head start?". I had to do the fol

Re: [gentoo-dev] Migrate away from python-2 or not

2019-11-29 Thread Mathy Vanvoorden
> I tried removing python2 on a handful of test systems over the last week > ... it's back everywhere. > > I attempted the same over the last couple of days as I was thinking "It's going anyway, why not get a head start?". I had to do the following: * Remove metagen * Remove rr * Update kodi and r

Re: [gentoo-dev] Migrate away from python-2 or not

2019-11-25 Thread Jaco Kroon
Hi Benda, On 2019/11/24 14:15, Benda Xu wrote: > What do you think? Is it possible to disable python2_7 by default, even if python2 is installed, and only enable python2_7 for those packages specifically requiring it (ie, being a dep for one of the packages that only supports python2_7? I tried

Re: [gentoo-dev] Migrate away from python-2 or not

2019-11-24 Thread Eddie Chapman
On 24/11/2019 12:15, Benda Xu wrote: Given the python-2 countdown deadline being 2020-01-01, a month away, shall we get rid of python-2? If the answer is no, to avoid holding back new versions having only python3, such as bug 671796 for dev-python/matplotlib bump, old versions with python_t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Migrate away from python-2 or not

2019-11-24 Thread Philip Webb
191124 Benda Xu wrote: > Bug 684962 (dev-python/ipython-7.5.0: package conflicts) has demonstrated > a painful consequence when upstream start to release python3 only versions. > Upstream has dropped python-2.7 support in dev-python/ipython-7.5.0, > thus there is no python_targets_python2_7 USE fla

Re: [gentoo-dev] Migrate away from python-2 or not

2019-11-24 Thread Francesco Riosa
Il giorno dom 24 nov 2019 alle ore 13:20 Benda Xu ha scritto: > > > > Given the python-2 countdown deadline being 2020-01-01, a month away, > shall we get rid of python-2? > > yes please as much as possible. In my experience most server instances can live without py2 at all (after clang 9). In de

[gentoo-dev] Migrate away from python-2 or not

2019-11-24 Thread Benda Xu
Dear all, Bug 684962 (dev-python/ipython-7.5.0: package conflicts) has demonstrated a painful consequence when upstream start to release python3 only versions. Upstream has dropped python-2.7 support in dev-python/ipython-7.5.0, thus there is no python_targets_python2_7 USE flag for the ebuild. d