Python is every bit as much trouble in gentoo as it is in the Florida swamps. Python is so much trouble the History Channel has a Swamp People program they're showing regularly on TV.
Could the post-install section of the handbook do with some good updates? On Sat, 19 Dec 2020, Michael wrote: > Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2020 06:51:18 > From: Michael <[email protected]> > Reply-To: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] override PYTHON_TARGETS to avoid a slot collision > > On Saturday, 19 December 2020 11:37:31 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sat, 19 Dec 2020 12:33:10 +0100, n952162 wrote: > > > I do an emerge @world, it tells me I have slot collisions and stops. > > > Following Neil B.'s advice, I try to go through the collisions and see > > > what the differences are. jinja was a nice example, because there was a > > > collision of the same package with itself! The only difference was the > > > PYTHON_TARGET. I hoped someone could explain how I could force > > > equivalency in that simple case. > > > > You need to follow the trail back further. If portage wants to install > > two variants of jnja, look to see what is requiring them, that is most > > likely where the real solution lies. > > 'emerge --tree -uNDpv @system' or '@world', will also show the respective > dependency tree of any packages portage is trying to update. If an older > version of jinja is being dragged in by a non-system package, you can > temporarily uninstall that package and make a note of it to re-install it > later if you need/want to. --
