On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 04:25:48PM -0500, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 3:48 PM William Hubbs <[email protected]> wrote:
> > If both /usr/bin/python and /usr/bin/python3 are going away, the best
> > choice would be to add functionality to python-exec or eselect python to 
> > tell us
> > the path to the default python interpretor. Once we know that we call it
> > directly.
> 
> I don't think they are "going away". There is a USE flag on
> dev-lang/python-exec that makes them optional, and I think it will be
> forcibly enabled for the foreseeable future.
> 
> > Please do not apply this patch to meson; I think we can figure something
> > out that is better.
> 
> I think installing a small script to help translate arguments from one
> format to another is a reasonable solution.
 
 I think we should look at the eclass to see if we can provide functions
 that can be used by consumers to handle this.

Also, I don't think your script will run if native-symlinks is disabled since in
that setting /usr/bin/python would not exist.

I question the value of the native-symlinks  use flag on python-exec
unless there is a way to query the path of the default python
interpretor.

William

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