<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 3:51 PM Gary Mills <<a href="mailto:gary_mills@fastmail.fm">gary_mills@fastmail.fm</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">As some of you may know, Nona and I have been working through a list<br>
of packages that depend on python-27 . The list was originally<br>
published by Aurlien Larcher, with a view to the removal of python-27<br>
from OI.<br>
<br>
With the integration of PR #7942, there are only two remaining<br>
packages:<br>
<br>
developer/gnome/gnome-doc-utils<br>
image/editor/gimp<br>
<br>
In both of these cases, python-2 is deeply embedded in the product,<br>
and the upstream developers have not completed the conversion to<br>
python-3 . Unless the conversion happens very soon, we have little<br>
choice but to obsolete these two packages, and revive them later when<br>
the conversion is ready. If anyone has a better alternative, please<br>
let us know.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>For gimp, can you not simply build with --disable-python?<br><br></div><div>In Tribblix, I've largely eliminated python2. But there are still one or two things<br></div><div>that need it (gnome-doc-utils being one, older Node.JS which will eventually go<br></div><div>away, but also Pale Moon requires it for build). So I'm actually keeping a python2.7<br></div><div>package, but it only exists to meet a handful of build dependencies so doesn't<br></div><div>get installed in the normal course of events, and I'm expecting to keep it that<br></div><div>way for a while.<br></div><div> </div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">-Peter Tribble<br><a href="http://www.petertribble.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.petertribble.co.uk/</a> - <a href="http://ptribble.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://ptribble.blogspot.com/</a></div></div>