On Sun, Jun 7, 2020 at 3:38 PM n952162 <[email protected]> wrote: > > I don't understand this - what can I add to @system to get @system to update? > > Ah, you mean that since readline is used by ~@system packages ... I'll try > @world ... oh, that's not inclusive of @system, perhaps.
@world includes @system. It doesn't necessarily include everything installed on your system though. > No, it hadn't worked. I oversaw this: > > WARNING: One or more updates/rebuilds have been skipped due to a dependency > conflict: > > sys-libs/readline:0 > > (sys-libs/readline-8.0_p4:0/8::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) > conflicts with > sys-libs/readline:0/7= required by > (dev-libs/libxml2-2.9.9-r3:2/2::gentoo, installed) > ^^^^^ > > dev-libs/libxml2:2 > > (dev-libs/libxml2-2.9.9-r3:2/2::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) > conflicts with > > dev-libs/libxml2[python,python_targets_python3_6(-),-python_single_target_pypy3(-),-python_single_target_python2_7(-),python_single_target_python3_6(+)] > required by (dev-util/itstool-2.0.6:0/0::gentoo, installed) The full output of the command would help, and so would the output of emerge --info. It seems like you probably have a problem with your PYTHON_TARGETS or something like that. There is quite a bit of turmoil going on with this right now - lots of people have run into difficulties with updating even a few packages and you're trying to update hundreds at once. > Lots built, but nothing is changed. I'll try @system @world That is unlikely to help. The python issue is probably your problem. -- Rich

