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" VIDEO_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

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