Hello Maurice!   
      
   15 Aug 2018 03:04, Maurice Kinal wrote to Benny Pedersen:   
      
    BP>> if you tell portage to let glib and mesalib use python3 its done   
    MK> I am sure mesalib requires python2.  Have you tried compiling it with    
    MK> only python3 available?   
      
      ----- mesa.ebuild begins -----   
   * media-libs/mesa   
        Available versions:  17.3.9^d ~18.0.5^d ~18.1.4^d ~18.1.5^d ~18.1.6^d   
   ~18.2.0_rc2^t **9999^t {bindist +classic d3d9 debug +dri3 +egl +gallium +gbm   
   gles1 gles2 +llvm lm_sensors +nptl opencl openmax osmesa pax_kernel pic   
   selinux test unwind vaapi valgrind vdpau vulkan wayland xa xvmc ABI_MIPS="n32   
   n64 o32" ABI_PPC="32 64" ABI_S390="32 64" ABI_X86="32 64 x32" VI   
   EO_CARDS="freedreno i915 i965 imx intel nouveau r100 r200 r300 r600 radeon   
   radeonsi vc4 virgl vivante vmware"}   
        Homepage:            https://www.mesa3d.org/ https://mesa.freedesktop.org/   
        Description:         OpenGL-like graphic library for Linux   
      
      ----- mesa.ebuild ends -----   
      
   not this one ?   
      
   python free here   
      
    BP>> if you know gentoo more you will hate precompiled distros more :)   
    MK> I don't hate them but I don't like that most don't tell me what I want    
    MK> to know before deciding whether or not I wish to try them out.   
      
   same here, i just learn from redhat, that was when i desided to go away from   
   precompiled distros into freebsd and gentoo world, have not retgretted it   
   since, and following maillists about ubuntu and centos keep me away from them,   
   debian might be sligtly better somewhare :)   
      
    MK> For    
    MK> example what versions of gcc, glibc, kernel version, etc.   
      
   +1   
      
    MK> The rest    
    MK> doesn't matter much and could care less about things like firefox    
    MK> nevermind which version.   
      
   +1   
      
   i have used links in framebuffered graphics mode on a quad p2 :)   
      
   it worked, not slow at all, and did not need any reboots after using it   
      
      
    Regards Benny   
      
   ... there can only be one way of life, and it works :)   
      
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