From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brett Gilio Subject: Re: the upcoming Great Python2 =?utf-8?Q?Purge=E2=84=A2?= Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 12:38:35 -0600 Message-ID: <87va1h3psk.fsf@posteo.net> References: <20181226093812.GR2581@macbook41> <20190218095619.GC7206@macbook41> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:46059) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gvnpZ-0000L0-6C for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2019 13:39:53 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gvnpT-0003Da-Ad for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2019 13:39:52 -0500 Received: from mout01.posteo.de ([185.67.36.65]:59017) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gvnpI-0001fa-Rr for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2019 13:39:40 -0500 Received: from submission (posteo.de [89.146.220.130]) by mout01.posteo.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B021816005D for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2019 19:38:40 +0100 (CET) In-reply-to: <20190218095619.GC7206@macbook41> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Efraim Flashner Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Efraim Flashner writes: > I checked 'guix refresh -l python2' and I got a list of the python2-* > packages which are leaf packages. I'm not suggesting that we right now > get rid of them, but it seems to me something worth keeping an eye on. > > 'guix package -A ^python2- | wc -l' gave me 737 > the number of leaf python2 packages I found was 222. > > This is only a first round; I didn't check to see if we were to remove > these packages how many more leaf python2 packages we would have. There are a few leaf packages that are being used to generate the python3 equivalent. So, maybe we should make a list of leaf packages that are otherwise safe to be dismissed. Also, what is the status of somebody deciding to move a lot of these to a channel?