On 11/05/14 01:32, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 7:20 PM, <gottl...@nyu.edu> wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 04 2014, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Paige Thompson <erra...@yourstruly.sx>
>>> 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.
Also I should merely point out... I didn't remove it I just figured out
how to switch to 2.7 as the default. Also I do occasionally use sandbox
(virtualenv) but stuff breaks.
