maintainer-feedback requested: [Bug 224128] www/chromium: won't build if system default python is not 2.7

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Bug 224128: www/chromium: won't build if system default python is not 2.7
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=224128



--- Description ---
FreeBSD 11.1 with poudriere 3.2.3 and ports snapshot from this morning.

It seems Chromium won't build unless python=2.7 is set. Since FLAVORS should,
theoretically, let me build both Python 2.7 and 3.6 I've switched my
DEFAULT_VERSIONS to python=3.6 . The lang/python port installs as 3.6 .

The port Makefile has USES python:2, but it seems Chromium has hard coded calls
to 'python' and even changing the Makefile to have python2:lang/python2 as a
BUILD_DEPEND doesn't fix that pathing issue.