[Bug 209204] Changing default Python version unduly difficult

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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=209204

            Bug ID: 209204
           Summary: Changing default Python version unduly difficult
           Product: Ports & Packages
           Version: Latest
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Only Me
          Priority: ---
         Component: Ports Framework
          Assignee: portmgr at FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: mi at FreeBSD.org
                CC: freebsd-ports-bugs at FreeBSD.org, kde at FreeBSD.org,
                    python at FreeBSD.org

Although I still have python-2.7 installed and used by some of the ports, I'd
like the newly-built ones to be based on python-3.5.

To this end I set the following flags:

DEFAULT_VERSIONS=ruby=2.0 tcl=8.6 gcc=4.9 db=6.1 python=3.5 perl=5.22
ghostscript9:agpl
PYTHON3_DEFAULT=3.5
PYTHON_DEFAULT=3

(even though only the very first one should be needed, right?)

Despite all this, devel/py-sip, for example, still insists on using 2.7:
PKGNAME=py27-sip-4.17,1
PYTHON_VER=2.7

The only way to force it, apparently, is to edit each port's Makefile and
change USES=python to USES=python:3 

This should not be necessary, should it?

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