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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] docutils needing py2.7, but not wanting py2.7?
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2020 22:14:25
Message-Id: 20200604231409.732a64f7@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] docutils needing py2.7, but not wanting py2.7? by Caveman Al Toraboran
1 On Thu, 04 Jun 2020 21:24:39 +0000, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote:
2
3 > if i exec: "emerge -avDuNt --quiet-build=y @world":
4 >
5 > > These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:
6 > >
7 > > Calculating dependencies... done!
8 > >
9 > > The following USE changes are necessary to proceed:
10 > > (see "package.use" in the portage(5) man page for more details)
11 > > #
12 > > >=dev-python/docutils-0.16 -python_targets_python2_7
13 > >
14 > > Would you like to add these changes to your config files?
15 > > [Yes/No]
16 >
17 > so >=dev-python/docutils-0.16 doesn't want
18 > python_targets_python2_7. let's remove it then by
19 > adding:
20 >
21 > >=dev-python/docutils-0.16 -python_targets_python2_7
22 >
23 > into: /etc/portage/package.use/stuff
24 >
25 > but then i get this:
26 >
27 > > The following USE changes are necessary to proceed:
28 > > (see "package.use" in the portage(5) man page for more details)
29 > > # required by dev-python/m2r-0.2.1::gentoo[-test]
30 > > # required by dev-python/automat-20.2.0::gentoo
31 > > # required by dev-python/twisted-20.3.0::gentoo
32 > > # required by www-servers/tornado-6.0.4::gentoo
33 > > # required by dev-python/ipykernel-5.1.4::gentoo[-test]
34 > > # required by dev-python/ipyparallel-6.2.3::gentoo
35 > > # required by dev-python/ipython-7.5.0::gentoo[smp]
36 > > # required by @selected
37 > > # required by @world (argument)
38 > > >=dev-python/docutils-0.16 python_targets_python2_7
39 > >
40 > > Would you like to add these changes to your config files?
41 > > [Yes/No]
42 >
43 > which i guess means that docutils wants py2.7.
44 >
45 >
46 > any idea how to handle this situation?
47
48 Allow portage to add the changes to your config, then run etc-update or
49 equivalent. When portage adds package.use changes, it also adds comments
50 showing what requires those changes. With that information, you should be
51 able to see which package is causing this.
52
53
54 --
55 Neil Bothwick
56
57 I'm Bugs Bunny of Borg. What's up Collective?

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