Re: [gentoo-user] openshot-2.0.6.ebuild

[Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>]

On Friday 25 March 2016 14:40:57 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Mar 2016 09:40:07 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > > A user has 2 choices:
> > > 
> > > - set python2 as default and configure packages that can use python3
> > > to use it
> > > - set python3 as default and configure packages that requires python2
> > > to use it
> > > 
> > > Which method you use depends entirely on what packages you use.
> > 
> > But Gentoo has two python versions set: a python 2 and a python 3. I
> > assume that ebuilds specify which version they need, so the default is
> > rarely used.
> > 
> > In that case it won't matter which is set as default.
> 
> It's not the ebuilds, they are written n bash, it's the various scripts
> you tun. If they specify the interpreter as python2 or python3,
> everything is fine (you can eselect the default for each of these) but if
> it just calls python, the script had better be written for the version
> you have as default.
> 
> On the basis that all python3 scripts were written at a time when the
> difference was known, but the same does not apply to all python2 scripts,
> I prefer to leave the default at python2. That was everything should run,
> no matter how old it is.

Hmm. I'll have to give that some thought.

-- 
Rgds
Peter

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