On 2021-02-27, hitachi303 <gentoo-u...@konstantinhansen.de> wrote: > Am 27.02.2021 um 14:08 schrieb Grant Edwards: > >> How do you determine why portage thinks a certain slot of a package >> is required? None of the documentation I an find on portage discusses >> finding packages dependent on particular slots. > > Have you tried #emerge -av --depclean =<atom> ?
Thanks! That does it: # emerge -av --depclean =dev-lang/python-2.7.18-r6 Calculating dependencies... done! dev-lang/python-2.7.18-r6 pulled in by: www-client/chromium-88.0.4324.182 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7[xml] I'm a bit surprised that 'equery d' is unable to figure that out. The other option I found is to uninstall python:2.7, then do emerge -auvNDt, and see why it's being re-installed, but that's a bit drastic. And now that I know the answer it makes sense: the machines where python 2.7 was removed by depclean don't have Chromium installed. -- Grant