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Andrew Lowe wrote:
> Hi all,
>     I've just run emerge --pretend --depclean and it wants to remove
> Python 3.6 - all good. But in turn it is leaving 2.7, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9.
>
>     I'm fine with 2.7 as I have a specific use for that but three
> versions in the 3.* series? Is there somewhere a How-to or FAQ or
> hints & tips that can guide me on how to sort this out a bit and tidy
> things up?
>
>     Any thoughts, greatly appreciated.
>
>         Andrew
>
>


Right now python is a work in progress.  The devs are trying to phase
out 2.7 but a small number of things will require it for a while yet. 
From what I've read and understood on -dev mailing list, some packages
are still on 3.7, some are on 3.8 and some are on 3.9.  I'm not sure
about backward compatibility but devs tend to use the highest version
they can and set it in the ebuild.  That may be why there is three of
those versions still hanging around. 

Given some more time, I think 3.6 may go away at some point in the not
so distant future.  There may even be a somewhat firm target date for
it.  I think either the date was on -dev or a link to it one. 

May have to give it more time yet. 

Dale

:-)  :-) 

Should have gone to the list, went to Dale directly

On 19/10/20 11:20 pm, Dale wrote:
> Andrew Lowe wrote:
>> Hi all, I've just run emerge --pretend --depclean and it wants to
>> remove Python 3.6 - all good. But in turn it is leaving 2.7, 3.7,
>> 3.8, 3.9.

[snip]

> Given some more time, I think 3.6 may go away at some point in the
> not so distant future. There may even be a somewhat firm target date
> for it. I think either the date was on -dev or a link to it one.
>
> May have to give it more time yet.
>
> Dale
>
>
>

Apologies for not replying sooner. I had a sneaking suspicion this would
be the case. Well, I'll just have to put up with it until "the day" when
the higher ups get things sorts.

Thanks,
Andrew

Andrew Lowe wrote:
> Should have gone to the list, went to Dale directly
>
> On 19/10/20 11:20 pm, Dale wrote:
>> Andrew Lowe wrote:
>>> Hi all, I've just run emerge --pretend --depclean and it wants to
>>> remove Python 3.6 - all good. But in turn it is leaving 2.7, 3.7,
>>> 3.8, 3.9.
>
> [snip]
>
>> Given some more time, I think 3.6 may go away at some point in the
>> not so distant future.  There may even be a somewhat firm target date
>> for it.  I think either the date was on -dev or a link to it one.
>>
>> May have to give it more time yet.
>>
>> Dale
>>
>>
>>
>
> Apologies for not replying sooner. I had a sneaking suspicion this
> would be the case. Well, I'll just have to put up with it until "the
> day" when the higher ups get things sorts.
>
>     Thanks,
>         Andrew
>
>


No problem.  My internet was down for several days.  I was unable to
notice the delay.  ;-)  ROFL 

It seems my provider had a problem and in the meantime a field rat,
common in this area, decided to chew on my phone wire.  I wish someone
had tried to "ring" me up and electrocuted the thing.  :-D  I got it
fixed and my provider fixed their issue as well.  I'm surfing again. 

I'm off to war with a field rat.  May be busy a while.  They stubborn
little things. 

Dale

:-)  :-)