On Sat, 12 Oct 2019 02:14:51 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote:

> I'm still as much as 3 months away from having spare CPU time,

If you are unable to update more frequently than that you are going to
encounter issues and maybe a binary distro would be a better fit.

> right now the next update is looking **BAD**:
> 
> 
> 
> tortoise ~ # emerge --update --verbose portage --backtrack=30 
> --verbose-conflicts --pretend

What are you emerging here, @system or @world?

> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
> 
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild???????? U?? ] sys-apps/portage-2.3.76::gentoo [2.3.65::gentoo] 
> USE="(ipc) native-extensions rsync-verify xattr -build -doc -epydoc 
> -gentoo-dev (-selinux)" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_6 python3_7 
> -pypy -python3_5" 1,010 KiB
> [blocks B?????????? ] <app-portage/gentoolkit-0.4.6 
> ("<app-portage/gentoolkit-0.4.6" is blocking sys-apps/portage-2.3.76)

Unmerge gentoolkit, then install the later version after portage if
updated.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

A friend of mine sent me a postcard with a satellite photo of the
entire planet on it, and on the back he wrote, "Wish you were here."

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