On Thu, 2020-12-03 at 20:48 +0000, antlists wrote: > I've got a similar problem - an "emerge --sync" said "portage has been > updated, you really should emerge it first before doing anything else". > So I tried. > > And it blew up very similarly to you, with loads of python problems
Same boat here. In the past I've just waited it out, but it always seems to be setuptools{_scm} related in my experience.