Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 5:55 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Got it, finally :-) > > > > fail2ban wants sys-apps/systemd[python(-)], and systemd-219_p112 is the > > highest version with an explicit python USE flag. All later versions do > > not have the flag at all. > > > > Your choices are either to have fail2ban fixed to deal with recent > > systemd USE, and tolerate the systemd downgrade meanwhile; or to replace > > fail2ban with something equivalent > > > > Sounds like this is covered by: > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=558168 > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=555502 > > It seems to me like this is a portage issue with the resolver. > Running emerge -1 python-systemd sounds like it fixes the issue. > Apparently once it is installed portage will figure out it needs to > hang onto it.
And portage will not let me do that even though I have removed the explicit python use flag from sys-apps/systemd -- in fact it will not let me reinstall the same version of systemd without the python use flag. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com