Re: [gentoo-user] update fails, but I don't see why

[Victor Ivanov]

On 03/12/2020 21:06, tastytea wrote:
> Python 3.8 is the new default target and not all packages support it
> yet. You can put
>    */* PYTHON_TARGETS: python3_7
> into /etc/portage/package.use as a workaround. Don't forget to remove
> it in a month or so.

I'm on the same boat. It's indeed because of Python 3.8 being the new 
default.

I seriously doubt it's because of packages being fundamentally 
incompatible, I reckon it's just another slightly premature rollout of 
the newer interpreter without all relevant ebuilds having been updated 
correctly. Not unlike what we experienced with the previous large scale 
rollout after the deprecation of Python 2 when for a few days, without 
manual intervention, many packages were complaining.

The above should work, but also I suspect simply waiting for a few days 
should resolve the issue as maintainers take notice and update the ebuilds.

- Victor