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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] update fails, but I don't see why
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2020 23:09:10
Message-Id: 20201203230855.604a76e4@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] update fails, but I don't see why by tastytea
1 On Thu, 3 Dec 2020 22:06:45 +0100, tastytea wrote:
2
3 > > I'm trying to update the gentoo system that I last updated 6 weeks
4 > > ago, but it seems not to work.  Can somebody explain to me why?
5 >
6 > Python 3.8 is the new default target and not all packages support it
7 > yet. You can put
8 > */* PYTHON_TARGETS: python3_7
9 > into /etc/portage/package.use as a workaround. Don't forget to remove
10 > it in a month or so.
11
12 You can remove it once everything is rebuilt then emerge @world again. I
13 got a few packages that still insisted on 3.7, which I added to a
14 separate file in package.use, but the conflicts were gone.
15
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18 Neil Bothwick
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