On 12/06/2017 11:09 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > But then using this version of imapclient fails since it wants > dev-python/backports-ssl (from PyPi). > But dev-python/backports-ssl-0.0.9 doesn't install here before a name > clash with dev-python/backports-1.0. > And no, this version of backports doesn't contain the 'ssl' class > > How did you solve this.
I didn't get that far. Once it installed, I came here to report my progress. > I nothing helps, I will rename backports to old-backports and patch > imapclient correspondingly. That /sounds/ like a bad idea, but I don't know enough about these packages to say for sure. If you ask in #gentoo-python, you might encourage someone who knows how to fix that to do so. There is an open bug for the new version: https://bugs.gentoo.org/571310
