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To: Doug Denault <doug@safeport.com>
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Subject: Re: Is this just the way it is??
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Doug Denault <doug@safeport.com> writes:

> So is this just the way things are? Relative to python, I'm 99% sure
> python36-3.6.9_1 works just as well as python36-3.6.9_3 or
> python37-3.7.6. I thought (hoped??) the with recent change to
> package/ports would result them not being this tied to sub-sub version
> changes.
>
> I'm just going for a yes or no. In the past you had a python 3 and 2.7
> if you needed it. No so now I guess??

You shouldn't need the python36 versions at all.  If you follow
the UPDATING directions, you *should* end up without them.