Re: Python package issues

[Sad Clouds <cryintothebluesky%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Sat, 25 May 2019 08:42:22 +0100
Mike Pumford <mpumford%mudcovered.org.uk@localhost> wrote:

> 
> 
> 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

what about the other way round and set python default version to 2.7?