[gentoo-user] docutils needing py2.7, but not wanting py2.7?

[Caveman Al Toraboran]

if i exec: "emerge -avDuNt --quiet-build=y @world":

    > These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:
    >
    > Calculating dependencies... done!
    >
    > The following USE changes are necessary to proceed:
    >  (see "package.use" in the portage(5) man page for more details)
    > #
    > >=dev-python/docutils-0.16 -python_targets_python2_7
    >
    > Would you like to add these changes to your config files? [Yes/No]

so >=dev-python/docutils-0.16 doesn't want
python_targets_python2_7.  let's remove it then by
adding:

    >=dev-python/docutils-0.16 -python_targets_python2_7

into: /etc/portage/package.use/stuff

but then i get this:

    > The following USE changes are necessary to proceed:
    >  (see "package.use" in the portage(5) man page for more details)
    > # required by dev-python/m2r-0.2.1::gentoo[-test]
    > # required by dev-python/automat-20.2.0::gentoo
    > # required by dev-python/twisted-20.3.0::gentoo
    > # required by www-servers/tornado-6.0.4::gentoo
    > # required by dev-python/ipykernel-5.1.4::gentoo[-test]
    > # required by dev-python/ipyparallel-6.2.3::gentoo
    > # required by dev-python/ipython-7.5.0::gentoo[smp]
    > # required by @selected
    > # required by @world (argument)
    > >=dev-python/docutils-0.16 python_targets_python2_7
    >
    > Would you like to add these changes to your config files? [Yes/No]

which i guess means that docutils wants py2.7.


any idea how to handle this situation?