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

[Dale]

Caveman Al Toraboran wrote:
> 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?
>
>
>


That is sort of a circular problem.  It doesn't want it, then it does. 
Thoughts?  Could it be that one of the other packages is still using
py2.7 and it needs to be disabled for them as well?  I would think
emerge would catch that and tell you that is what it needs but maybe
not.  It may not even be something you can toggle with a USE flag for
some reason. 

That's the only thing I can think of at the moment.  Maybe someone else
has a idea or it will hit me while I'm killing weeds in the garden.  You
know how it is.  You think about something when you are doing something
else.  lol 

Dale

:-)  :-)