Re: [gentoo-user] problems emerging some ruby packages

[Neil Bothwick]

On Tue, 11 Oct 2022 16:02:52 -0400, Jack wrote:

> For example, "emerge -1 dev-ruby/thor" gives me
>
> !!! Problem resolving dependencies for dev-ruby/thor
> ... done!
>
> !!! The ebuild selected to satisfy "dev-ruby/thor" has unmet
> requirements.
> - dev-ruby/thor-1.2.1::gentoo USE="-doc -test" ABI_X86="(64)"
> RUBY_TARGETS="-ruby27 (-ruby30) (-ruby31)"

ruby30 and ruby31 are in parentheses, which means they are not available.
>
>    The following REQUIRED_USE flag constraints are unsatisfied:
>      any-of ( ruby_targets_ruby27 ruby_targets_ruby30
> ruby_targets_ruby31 )
>
> I would expect USE_RUBY="ruby31" to translate into ruby_targets_ruby31,
> but even explicitly adding that to package.use has no effect.

The ebuild contains USE_RUBY="ruby26 ruby27" ruby_add_bdepend "

Have you tried setting RUBY_TARGETS to ruby27 for this package?

I must say I find the whole RUBY_* thing even more troublesome than the
PYTHON_* stuff, and that's saying something!


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Neil Bothwick

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