From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5482138BD3 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 2014 01:32:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 54C43E0852; Wed, 5 Nov 2014 01:32:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ie0-f169.google.com (mail-ie0-f169.google.com [209.85.223.169]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 38F9EE07EC for ; Wed, 5 Nov 2014 01:32:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ie0-f169.google.com with SMTP id tr6so8810669ieb.14 for ; Tue, 04 Nov 2014 17:32:40 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=AOyIWnfFWhku6pC+IYxX6auzEOoIKYzJ7DTbpoRq6tc=; b=E4PAF/VYr1AAE34p8rm8GV9HF1ZfVtttXWK/W/cmlHfW4mFSwIzhUBOunJfi+95AG6 UeDG21P2B8AgqyYvtNEds6NyVJ4rnf6qztoFjETIFMX9GeG/ZwCHmIcoFtzX0QKRPAPT Y3Yp+0jiXgc6gwSHUBOPqsnusQH8SWEr7xb39+KhecgjmwCFPvDImZQvrSaJJAHEMqze GwmEn4Gl7lv/IrP7u8wBEEIRyumouUUmjPfVXgmGiLQR5T6B7CStsrkNXx9pCMF/QHQy AJEIBks7B3uJW0axynoiuFf7X9dMTELVMhr5aX+T6WozNJFu3OlnAQj3zgNdqRSzjYue /xhg== X-Received: by 10.50.142.71 with SMTP id ru7mr27954775igb.32.1415151160407; Tue, 04 Nov 2014 17:32:40 -0800 (PST) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.107.29.148 with HTTP; Tue, 4 Nov 2014 17:32:20 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87tx2e5tq4.fsf@nyu.edu> References: <5459026B.5020800@yourstruly.sx> <87tx2e5tq4.fsf@nyu.edu> From: =?UTF-8?B?Q2FuZWsgUGVsw6FleiBWYWxkw6lz?= Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2014 19:32:20 -0600 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] using python 2.7 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 08c1f22b-a8dc-476e-a54b-cd4f1ae65bd7 X-Archives-Hash: 06f6e3eb6c84551b987c247324e3594d On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 7:20 PM, wrote: > On Tue, Nov 04 2014, Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Paige Thompson = wrote: >>> RIP python 3 >>> >>> how do I get rid of it >> >> It's possible that you can't. Some (or many) packages could depend on >> Python 2.7 because they don't work with Python 3.x. You can check that >> with: >> >> equery depends dev-lang/python:2.7 >> >> In my main system (full GNOME 3 desktop), 174 packages depend on >> Python 2.7. Some of them probably can be made to work only with Python >> 3.x, but I'm willing to bet that the majority doesn't. >> >> Maybe in the future, but I don't think it will be possible for at >> least a few years. >> >> Regards. > > I believe the OP wants to keep 2.7 and ditch 3. Right. Even so, that's going to be even more difficult as long as more and more packages switch to Python 3. Which is happening really slowly, but happening nonetheless. Regards. --=20 Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Ciencias Universidad Nacional Aut=C3=B3noma de M=C3=A9xico