[gentoo-user] python breakage

[William Kenworthy <bill@kenworthy.id.au>]

Hi, the complex mess that is python is giving me problems by ignoring my 
wants ... again!

In order to try and stop users shooting themselves in the foot it used 
the token "EXTERNALLY-MANAGED" in order to prevent unintended updates 
from within python that do not use portage) ... I presume?

Homeassistant (non-gentoo overlay) does this by design to install 
missing deps to modules.  Deleting the token allows Homeassistant to 
keep working as designed.

Now, at some point (after a world update probably a month or two ago - 
just did an update and found the damage) python has decided that it will 
only allow local installs via "venv" or uv using the -system arg (I 
think) breaking Homeassistant again. The following error message is 
because the required deps are not installed.

2024-11-02 08:30:35.978 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.setup] Setup 
failed for custom integration 'huawei_solar': Requirements for 
huawei_solar not found: ['huawei-solar==2.3.0'].


My questions (for gentoo) is this another gentoo only hack, or an 
upstream hard requirement and how can it be turned off.

BillK