I updated one of my systems a day or two ago, and Python 3.7 went away as expected. Today, I'm updating another system and it is rebuilding tons of stuff to target python 3.8 instead of 3.7, but it's keeping 3.7 and even wants to install a _new_ package -- and build it for Python 3.7:
[...] [nomerge ] app-portage/gemato-16.2::gentoo USE="gpg -test -tools" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_8* (-pypy3) -python3_6 -python3_7* -python3_9" [nomerge ] dev-python/requests-2.24.0-r1::gentoo USE="ssl -socks5 -test" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_8* (-pypy3) -python3_6 -python3_7* -python3_9" [nomerge ] dev-python/cryptography-3.2.1::gentoo [3.2::gentoo] USE="-idna -libressl -test" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_8* (-pypy3) -python3_6 -python3_7* -python3_9" [ebuild R ] dev-python/six-1.15.0-r1::gentoo USE="-doc -test" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_8* (-pypy3) -python3_6 -python3_7* -python3_9" 0 KiB [ebuild U ] dev-python/setuptools-50.3.0::gentoo [46.4.0-r3::gentoo] USE="-test" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_8* (-pypy3) -python3_6 -python3_7* -python3_9 (-python2_7%*)" 2,119 KiB [ebuild N ] dev-python/setuptools_scm-4.1.2-r1::gentoo USE="-test" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_7 python3_8 (-pypy3) -python3_6 -python3_9" 0 KiB [ebuild U ] dev-python/certifi-10001-r1::gentoo [10001::gentoo] USE="-test" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_8* (-pypy3) -python3_6 -python3_7* -python3_9 (-python2_7%*)" 0 KiB [...] Total: 109 packages (12 upgrades, 1 new, 96 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 924,708 KiB How do I figure out why setuptools_scm is being built with the Python 3.7 target? There are no python targets specified in /etc/portage/* -- Grant
