On Sat, 19 Dec 2020 15:11:34 +0100, n952162 wrote: > >> I don't think this output or any list participant has actually > >> identified where the problem here is. In my original posting, the > >> only difference causing the slot collision for jinja was that one > >> had a PYTHON_TARGETS of 3-7 and the other of 3-8. I asked how to > >> force it to the correct value, but if someone explained that to me, > >> I didn't understand it. > > You have specified manually a number of python versions, you > > shouldn't have. > > > Are you saying that long lists like this: > > *"python3_8 python3_9 (-pypy3) -python3_6 -python3_7*" > > are relics from improper or obsolete invocations made be me? > > If so, how can I get rid of them?
grep -ir python /etc/portage/package.use
You shouldn't really have many, if any, specific settings for
python_target. Comment out any you see and try again.
> > 2. Clean your world file from any and all dependencies, libraries and
> > packages you do not want to have explicitly installed.
>
>
> Yes, I receive that advice a lot. If I were to follow it aggressively,
> there would only be a handful of files in my world file. Will that
> work?
Absolutely. Remove anything you don't explicitly need then run depclean.
If something shows in the list that you want to keep, add it back with
emerge -n.
> I update the /etc/portage/package.use files by hand, so I get a feeling
> for how it works. Can it be that etc-update is a "smart system" that
> does more than just that?
Yes, read the docs, it merges the old and new configs. I prefer to use
conf-update but all the config managers do much the same thing.
> >> /Is there a fundamental goals issue here, when there's so much
> >> incompatibility between python3_{6,7,8,9}? Do packages really need
> >> to care? Are these versions so fundamentally different from each
> >> other, and programmers rely on those differences? Or, is this
> >> somebody's orderliness tic?/
It's also about where python modules are installed, but the main problem
here appears to be that you are depending on obsolete and deprecated
versions of python.
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