[Buildroot] About python2 and python3

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Mon May 9 21:16:06 UTC 2016


Hello,

On Mon, 9 May 2016 23:00:51 +0200, Marco Trapanese wrote:

> Ok, it's reasonable.
> Is there an easy way to find out which package(s) is selecting another?
> I had to copy & paste several times the loooong "selected by" line:

Run "make graph-depends" and look into output/graphs/.

> so it's the last group which selects python2: samba4.
> Right now I've deselected it. Then I will try to understand if it can 
> live with python3.

Most likely not. Samba is a big thing, and making it work with Python 3
is going to be a huge amount of work if it's not done by upstream.

Thomas
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