On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 10:38:43AM +0100, Arve Barsnes wrote > On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 at 10:07, Walter Dnes <[email protected]> wrote: > > I just did an "emerge --sync", and was told to update portage. But it > > seems that portage 3.0.8 built with python 3.7 is blocking portage 3.0.9 > > with python 3.8. I obviously can't remove portage to fix the block <G>. > > Note "grep -i python /etc/portage/make.conf" shows no output at all. In > > package.use, PYTHON_TARGETS: and PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET: are commented out. > > It's a dependency problem that I find that it is not worth to > untangle. I had the exact same problem yesterday on a different > machine. > > My advice: skip this and go straight to world update. portage will > most likely figure out the tangle for you, and update itself during > the world update.
Thank you. That fixed the problem. After updating world portage-3.0.9 is now installed, built against PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_8" -- Walter Dnes <[email protected]> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
