Index: Makefile
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--- Makefile	(revision 552385)
+++ Makefile	(working copy)
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 # iconv:wchar_t - our iconv in base doesn't support utf-8 -> wchar_t (boooo)
 # (wchar_t is used by glibmm, rawtherapee triggered this)
 USES+=		compiler:c11 gettext gnome iconv:wchar_t \
-		localbase:ldflags meson perl5 pkgconfig python:3.5+
+		localbase:ldflags meson perl5 pkgconfig
 USE_PYTHON=	py3kplist
 USE_PERL5=	build
 USE_LDCONFIG=	yes
@@ -43,8 +43,8 @@
 		glib-compile-resources.1 gresource.1 gdbus-codegen.1
 gobject_MAN=	glib-genmarshal.1 glib-mkenums.1 gobject-query.1
 
-OPTIONS_DEFINE=	DEBUG MANPAGES NLS
-OPTIONS_DEFAULT=	MANPAGES
+OPTIONS_DEFINE=	DEBUG MANPAGES NLS RUNTIME_PYTHON
+OPTIONS_DEFAULT=	MANPAGES RUNTIME_PYTHON
 OPTIONS_SUB=	yes
 
 MANPAGES_BUILD_DEPENDS=		docbook-xml>4.1.2:textproc/docbook-xml \
@@ -51,6 +51,9 @@
 				docbook-xsl>0:textproc/docbook-xsl
 MANPAGES_USE=			GNOME=libxslt:build
 MANPAGES_MESON_TRUE=	man
+RUNTIME_PYTHON_USES=	python:3.5+,run
+RUNTIME_PYTHON_USES_OFF=python:3.5+,build
+RUNTIME_PYTHON_DESC=	Keep Python as a run-time dependency
 
 .include <bsd.port.pre.mk>