[CFT] lang/python becoming a python binary wrapper

[Dmitry Sivachenko]

On 16.09.2013, at 19:22, Marcus von Appen <mva at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On, Mon Sep 16, 2013, Dmitry Sivachenko wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> Imagine the following scenario:
>> I have both python2 and python3 installed.
>> I want python2 to be the default version (lang/python port installs
>> python -> python2.7, etc).
>> 
>> 
>> Then I want to build another port with python3 dependency.
>> 
>> I put USE_PYTHON=3.3+ in port's Makefile, but it depends on lang/python which pulls python2.7 too.
>> 
>> How can I build a python module with 3.X only dependency?
> 
> Right now this can only be arranged with a hack in Mk/bsd.python.mk,
> line 581 and following. Those pull in lang/python, since many ports
> depend on bin/python, although they are only compatible with a specific
> python version.
> Solving this issue and making ports depend on lang/python2 OR
> lang/python3 OR a specific python version is on the agenda, but will
> take some time, since many ports, that python scripts, have to be checked.
> 
> We happily invite everyone to check ports for those issues, report back
> to us or provide fixes to solve this faster ;-).
> 
> 


Before recent  switching to new python/python2/python3 scheme I installed many python modules/programs which use python3 with default version being 2.7 without any problem (just replace USE_PYTHON=yes to USE_PYTHON=3.3+).

And it pulled only python3 as dependency.

Now I can't do that :(