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

[Adam Carter]

On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 8:06 AM tastytea <gentoo@××××××××.de> wrote:

> On 2020-12-03 21:33+0100 n952162 <n952162@×××.de> wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to update the gentoo system that I last updated 6 weeks
> > ago, but it seems not to work.  Can somebody explain to me why?
>
> 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.
>
>
Try emerge -avuUD @world (the U is the critical bit). For me, it pulled in
a bunch of extra rebuilds (with -python3_7 and +python3_8). After that
depclean removed 3.7