Re: Python package issues

[Mike Pumford <mpumford%mudcovered.org.uk@localhost>]

On 25/05/2019 07:22, Sad Clouds wrote:

> This is what I was suspecting, but is it really necessary to have two
> versions of python installed? I mean, are they backwards compatible, and
> if yes, if some package cannot work with 2.7 then would setting default
> python version in mk.conf to 3.7 resolve the issue?
Sadly they aren't. The default python version is already 3.7. The reason 
that gtk2 depends on py27-expat is that its not been updated to be 
python 3 compatible. :(

This isn't something that is going to go away for a while so its up to 
pkgsrc to solve the problem until it does.

Mike