On 12/3/20 9:33 PM, n952162 wrote:
I'm trying to update the gentoo system that I last updated 6 weeks ago, but it seems not to work. Can somebody explain to me why?
I tried and tried to figure out how I could determine what the fatal slot conflict would be. No matter how I mixed things, setuptools came up fighting about these things: - certifi - setuptools - jinja - markupsafe - libxml2 All the requirements were essentially equivalent, the only problem is that all had PYTHON_TARGETS with PYTHON3_8, while setuptools also had 3_6 and 3_7. I was not able to learn how to force PYTHON_TARGETS, also not by modifying the ebuild. Out of desperation or carelessness, I did a --depclean on the contents of the world file. 179 packages were removed, including sudo and my window manager. 106 packages were left. At least, I could still execute emerge. So, I tried to do an emerge on @system. I got another slot conflict! This time for mako, which I'd seen go by sometimes as a "package of interest". It's only transgression: PYTHON_TARGET containing python3_7. BUT! Finally, I could emerge mako. Along with it are coming 50 other packages! I presume that tomorrow, I'll be able to do a full @system and @world update and then re-install my old world file.
