[arch-dev-public] Removing 'orphan' python2 modules
Hi All, Our repository contains a lot of python2 modules which are required by any package in the repository. I'd like to propose to remove these modules pre-emptively since they serve no purpose and python2 is dead. We should strive to be a modern distro, so promoting Python3 should be a big part of it :) Please reply if you have objections. A list of modules / programs can be obtained as following or viewed here [1] $ pacman -Sqs python2 > list $ expac -S '%n %N' -l ' ' - < list | awk NF==1 [1] http://pkgbuild.com/~jelle/python2_modules.txt -- Jelle van der Waa
Jelle van der Waa schreef op 2018-06-27 21:35:
Hi All,
Our repository contains a lot of python2 modules which are required by any package in the repository. I'd like to propose to remove these modules pre-emptively since they serve no purpose and python2 is dead. We should strive to be a modern distro, so promoting Python3 should be a big part of it :)
Please reply if you have objections.
A list of modules / programs can be obtained as following or viewed here [1]
$ pacman -Sqs python2 > list $ expac -S '%n %N' -l ' ' - < list | awk NF==1
Python 2.7 is supported until 2020, that's 18 months from now. I agree that we should limit the orphaned python2 modules as much as possible, but please don't kill the ones that are built from a split package that also builds python3 packages. This would mean removing the python2 parts from the PKGBUILD, moving the python2 part to AUR and create a lot of duplicated effort when updating these packages.
On Fri, 29 Jun 2018 09:48:07 +0200 jan@jgc.homeip.net wrote:
Jelle van der Waa schreef op 2018-06-27 21:35:
Hi All,
Our repository contains a lot of python2 modules which are required by any package in the repository. I'd like to propose to remove these modules pre-emptively since they serve no purpose and python2 is dead. We should strive to be a modern distro, so promoting Python3 should be a big part of it :)
Please reply if you have objections.
A list of modules / programs can be obtained as following or viewed here [1]
$ pacman -Sqs python2 > list $ expac -S '%n %N' -l ' ' - < list | awk NF==1
Python 2.7 is supported until 2020, that's 18 months from now. I agree that we should limit the orphaned python2 modules as much as possible, but please don't kill the ones that are built from a split package that also builds python3 packages. This would mean removing the python2 parts from the PKGBUILD, moving the python2 part to AUR and create a lot of duplicated effort when updating these packages.
I would say those are exactly what should be removed. Its a whole lot of packages in the repos that have no reason to be there.
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Doug Newgard
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jan＠jgc.homeip.net
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Jelle van der Waa