Fedora 32: python27 package needed as dependency

[JayJayJazz]

Hi all,

today I tried to install the freshly released VirtualBox 6.1.10 via "VirtualBox-6.1-6.1.10_138449_fedora32-1.x86_64.rpm".
DNF resolves all dependencies and also asks to install python27 package, which contains Python 2.7.18.

I wanted to ask: Is this correct as Python 2.7 is EOL since beginning of this year (or end of last year?)? In addition, the RPMFusion package does not need the python27 package as a dependency.

[robatino]

I'm also on F32. I already had gimp-help installed which also has python27 as a dependency. I can confirm that if I try to remove python27, it wants to remove Virtualbox-6.1 and gimp-help.

[JayJayJazz]

@robatino: Thanks for checking and verifying.

So, is this a bug on Fedora 32? As mentioned: the RPMFusion version doesn't this package as a dependency?

[scottgus1]

Virtualbox provides Python 2 & 3 interfaces for the Virtualbox API. Of course this doesn't help, but on Windows hosts Python is not needed to run Virtualbox.

Try to research if it is possible to ignore a dependency on a Linux OS for uninstalling Python 2.

Another thought, similar to the idea that XP is still OK to run as long as the computer is not connected to the internet: If Python 2 is not run, will it hurt anything?