You can use one of the tools in the Gentootoolkit to query Gentoo for a list of packages.
qpkg -q
This will list everything I believe. Not sure if this helps since your referencing a difference between Bash and Python....
That doesn't make sense. qpkg -q gives packages depending upon installed package and without any parameters displays hundreds of things. I am looking for the total number of packages in the category 'system' as given at the end of 'emerge depclean -p' :-
Packages installed: 384 Packages in world: 299 Packages in system: 68 <<------ Note this line Unique package names: 380 Required packages: 395 Number to remove: 4
I can't use this 'emerge depclean -p' command however in my script since it takes too much time.
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