On Sunday, 7 March 2021 17:03:22 GMT Arve Barsnes wrote: > On Sun, 7 Mar 2021 at 17:00, Steven Lembark <[email protected]> wrote: > > I believe there isn't any PYTHON_TARGET-ish setting on the system: > > $ grep PYTHON_TARGET /etc/portage/make.conf > > /etc/portage/package.use/* > > > > /etc/portage/make.conf:#PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_7 python2_7" > > /etc/portage/package.use/dizzy:#*/* PYTHON_TARGETS: python3_6 > > python3_7 > > /etc/portage/package.use/dizzy~:#*/* PYTHON_TARGETS: python3_6 > > python3_7 > > What this is telling you is that you have no manual *override* of the > default python target setting. Check yours with something like: > $ emerge --info | grep PYTHON_TARGETS > > The default at the moment is 3.8, and as eselect showed you, your > default python interpreter is 3.9. Did you set this explicitly? If you > have no particular need to move to 3.9 early, you could set 3.8 as the > default and probably be rid of your problems immediately. > > > Q: Is this related to the fact that I'm not actually checking > > > > python but a wrapper named "python-exec2c": > > $ ls -l /usr/bin/python3 > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Oct 20 10:46 /usr/bin/python3 -> > > python-exec2c > > > > i.e., could the wrapper be mis-diagnosing the correct python > > version at install time? > > It is finding python 3.9, which your system has set up to be the > wanted version. The link is the same on my system, but I have 3.8 as > my default interpreter, so I would not have these problems. > > Regards, > Arve
While eselect python is still available the OP can run: eselect python update eselect python cleanup
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