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

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On 12/13/20 9:18 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:

> There's a lot to trawl through here, it looks like you haven't updated
>>> for quite some time.
>>
>> The (compressed) log of  a system and world update from 20. October
>> (2020!) is attached.
> Nearly 2 months, quite a long time in Gentoo update terms.


!!!  After 2 months the system can no longer be update-able?


> ...
>>
>>>    What do
>>>
>>> grep -r python3_6 /etc/portage
>>
>> That showed that the only references are in package.use
> But what does it show. We need the output of commands, not some vague
> reference to them. I suspected there was something in package.use, but we
> need to know what. Those references should probably be removed but no one
> can say for sure without seeing them.
>
>

Oh sorry.  You mentioned

PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_6"

and I didn't connect that with USE variables.  Here there are (with comments removed)

$ sed -n -e '/^\s*#/d' -e '/python3_6/p' /etc/portage/package.use/*
>=dev-python/certifi-10001-r1 python_targets_python3_6
>=dev-python/setuptools_scm-4.1.2-r1 python_targets_python3_6
>=dev-python/requests-2.24.0-r1 python_targets_python3_6
>=dev-python/chardet-3.0.4-r1 python_targets_python3_6
>=dev-python/idna-2.10-r1 python_targets_python3_6
>=dev-python/urllib3-1.25.11 python_targets_python3_6
>=dev-python/cryptography-3.2.1 python_targets_python3_6
>=dev-python/cffi-1.14.0-r3 python_targets_python3_6
>=dev-python/pycparser-2.20-r1 python_targets_python3_6
>=dev-python/ply-3.11-r1 python_targets_python3_6
>=dev-python/PySocks-1.7.1-r1 python_targets_python3_6
>=dev-python/pyopenssl-19.1.0-r1 python_targets_python3_6
>=dev-python/setuptools-50.3.0 python_targets_python3_6
>=dev-python/six-1.15.0-r1 python_targets_python3_6