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Ability to build in jeopardy with python2.7 removal from ::gentoo in the near future
Take note of https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/2e9e67482f16d5c3833e324f50a3380f
Due to palemoon not being in ::gentoo, there's no pressure on gentoo devs to keep old pythons in tree to support it.
Subsequently, as soon as ::gentoo is able to remove python2.7, the overlay will cease to be usable what-so-ever.
I couldn't find anything on palemoon's side indicating they're cribbing the changes made in firefox to work with python3x and I'm not hugely motivated to sign up to a forum I'll likely never use.
Fortuanately there's still a few things that have to be done on gentoo's side, but this still means pressure must be put somewhere if we don't want this to be predictably broken.
Reading news 2020-09-28-python-2-7-cleanup it does not sound that the very last package python-2.7.* will be removed, as even Gentoo's Portage still has some dependencies on it. The last sentence of the news is: '''Please do not forget to add dev-lang/python:2.7 to your @world set or it may get depcleaned once all package dependencies are gone.'''
