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 :-) :-)
