Python 3.6 default target reverted on Gentoo

After a long rebuild session yesterday due to the Python 3.6 upgrade, I was not overly impressed when issuing emerge --sync eventually resulted in a proposition to revert yesterdays work:

I canceled the proposed rebuild and had a close look at /usr/portage/profiles/base/make.defaults to confirm that the Python 3.6 defaults had in fact been removed:

BOOTSTRAP_USE="cxx unicode internal-glib split-usr python_targets_python3_5 python_targets_python2_7"

PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_5"
PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_5"

The image seen below was snapped from the official Gentoo ebuild repository and shows the commit message reverting Python 3.6.

There has not been any official announcement regarding the reverting of Python 3.6 so I’ll just add the default targets to my /etc/portage/make.conf until more information becomes available.

PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_6"
PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_6"

I’ll likely need to handle a few packages manually again, but that’s currently less of a hassle than doing the complete rebuild. Hey, at least Fail2ban got updated today :-)