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Hello, Neil. |
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On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 21:05:48 +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Fri, 11 Dec 2020 18:08:55 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote: |
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> > I got back a horrendously long list of packages to merge (most of them |
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> > re-merges), followed by: |
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> > emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy |
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> > "dev-python/pycparser[python_targets_python3_6(-)?,python_targets_python3_7(-)?,python_targets_python3_8(-)?,python_targets_python3_9(-)?,-python_single_target_python3_6(-),-python_single_target_python3_7(-),-python_single_target_python3_8(-),-python_single_target_python3_9(-)]". |
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> > !!! One of the following packages is required to complete your request: |
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> > - dev-python/pycparser-2.20-r1::gentoo (Change USE: |
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> > +python_targets_python3_7) |
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> > - dev-python/cffi-1.14.0-r3::gentoo (Change USE: |
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> > -python_targets_python3_7) (dependency required by |
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> A required package is just a dependency. If package A depends on package |
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> B then package B is required is you have A installed. |
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OK. I can now see that "dependency required by" just means "is a |
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dependency of". Dependency is a relationship; it is not a thing. |
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> > "dev-python/cffi-1.14.0-r3::gentoo" [ebuild]) (dependency required by |
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> > "dev-python/bcrypt-3.2.0::gentoo" [installed]) (dependency required by |
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> > "dev-python/paramiko-2.7.1::gentoo" [installed]) (dependency required |
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> > by "dev-vcs/bzr-2.7.0::gentoo" [installed]) |
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> This is part of the python cleanup/upgrade already discussed at length on |
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> this list over the past week, so the answers are already available. |
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Yes, sorry. I've not been keeping up with the list as assiduously as I |
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might. |
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> You have had some useful replies already but one thing I noticed it |
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> that this is brought about by bzr, which is no longer in portage. |
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> Unless you have it installed from an overlay for a particular need of |
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> yours, you should let it be depcleaned. |
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Yes, bazaar was indeed the sticking point. It's been unmaintained for |
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quite a few years, and is written in python. I just unmerged it, then |
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the mega-merge went ahead without problems (though I excluded |
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libreoffice from that merge, for now). |
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I still amn't happy about the error message I got. But I'm not unhappy |
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enough about it to invest the time needed to get up to speed on portage |
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and submit patches. :-( |
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Anyhow, thanks for the tip! |
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> -- |
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> Neil Bothwick |
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> A TRUE Klingon warrior does not comment his code! |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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