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From: Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@××××××.be>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] circular dependency - please help
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2020 11:05:53
Message-Id: LGWTDMUH.XCXU4S3A.LRDVHXIW@BTINYBXI.YIA5POLJ.PID7QCJU
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] circular dependency - please help by Helmut Jarausch
1 On 06/21/2020 12:21:08 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > I do need python2.7 since I do need media-gfx/gimp.
5 >
6 > Unfortunately, I have masked dev-python/setuptools version >= 47.0.0
7 > too late.
8 > Now I cannot emerge dev-python/setuptools-46.4.0-r1 since this needs
9 > dev-python/pbr which in turn cannot be installed without setuptools
10 > for Python2.7.
11 >
12 > How can I get out of this dilemma?
13 >
14
15 I have been lucky.
16 dev-python/pbr is a pure Python package. I've just copied from
17 /usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pbr
18 to
19 /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pbr
20 and removed all __pycache__ folders