I am trying to clean my system from python2 but boost-build wants it: --- $ equery u dev-util/boost-build-1.71.0 [ Legend : U - final flag setting for installation] [ : I - package is installed with flag ] [ Colors : set, unset ] * Found these USE flags for dev-util/boost-build-1.71.0: U I - - examples : Install examples, usually source code - - python : Add optional support/bindings for the Python language - - python_single_target_python2_7 : Build for Python 2.7 only - - python_targets_python2_7 : Build with Python 2.7 --- I have unset all of the USE flag of boost-build I don't know what is it good for ? I thought dev-python/numpy would need, but in emerges is second not hours a before: Do I miss something? --- # emerge -1 =dev-python/numpy-1.16.5 These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies ......... done! [ebuild R ] dev-python/numpy-1.16.5::gentoo USE="doc lapack -test" PYTHON_TARGETS="-python2_7 -python3_5 -python3_6 python3_7" 0 KiB Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 KiB Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] y >>> Verifying ebuild manifests >>> Emerging (1 of 1) dev-python/numpy-1.16.5::gentoo >>> Installing (1 of 1) dev-python/numpy-1.16.5::gentoo >>> Jobs: 1 of 1 complete Load avg: 1.34, 1.40, 1.13 >>> Auto-cleaning packages... ---
Emerging of dev-python/numpy has nothing to do with any python USE of dev-util/boost-build Having USE python I can see about 20 different *.py files in the boost-build tree. Some words indicate this is for porpuse when coding in Visual-Studio or some activity alike. The normal normal user should get a hint to not USE python with dev-util/boost-build because this then catches python2 unwantedly.
The USE description should better be: - - python : Add python scripts for coding with boost in a gui environment
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=2eea16ea07c7e7ab695083e66d23ed60b29be4a6 commit 2eea16ea07c7e7ab695083e66d23ed60b29be4a6 Author: David Seifert <soap@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2019-12-15 14:20:11 +0000 Commit: David Seifert <soap@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2019-12-15 14:20:11 +0000 dev-util/boost-build: Bump to version 1.72.0 * Completely remove USE="python" support. Noone has ever used this scripts, and to date they are still not python 3 compatible. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/702396 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.81, Repoman-2.3.20 Signed-off-by: David Seifert <soap@gentoo.org> dev-util/boost-build/Manifest | 1 + dev-util/boost-build/boost-build-1.72.0.ebuild | 74 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 75 insertions(+)
