On 2020-08-24, Thomas Mueller <mueller6...@twc.com> wrote: >> >> - Unmerge all python and python-setuptools versions > >> > No, don't do that!!! >> > Unmerging all python version will leave you with a non-working portage. > >> Indeed -- I've done that. It's not fun. You certainly won't do it a >> second time.
> How did you recover? You couldn't even use setup.py at that stage. Right. > Did you have to download the python distfile if you didn't have it > already, and build using configure and make directly? IIRC, I copied Python binaries and libraries from another computer. That took some trial-and-error, but I eventually got to the point where I could do an "emerge python". -- Grant
