Hello, Neil. On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 21:05:48 +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 11 Dec 2020 18:08:55 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> > I got back a horrendously long list of packages to merge (most of them > > re-merges), followed by: > > emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy > > "dev-python/pycparser[python_targets_python3_6(-)?,python_targets_python3_7(-)?,python_targets_python3_8(-)?,python_targets_python3_9(-)?,-python_single_target_python3_6(-),-python_single_target_python3_7(-),-python_single_target_python3_8(-),-python_single_target_python3_9(-)]". > > !!! One of the following packages is required to complete your request: > > - dev-python/pycparser-2.20-r1::gentoo (Change USE: > > +python_targets_python3_7) > > - dev-python/cffi-1.14.0-r3::gentoo (Change USE: > > -python_targets_python3_7) (dependency required by > A required package is just a dependency. If package A depends on package > B then package B is required is you have A installed. OK. I can now see that "dependency required by" just means "is a dependency of". Dependency is a relationship; it is not a thing. > > "dev-python/cffi-1.14.0-r3::gentoo" [ebuild]) (dependency required by > > "dev-python/bcrypt-3.2.0::gentoo" [installed]) (dependency required by > > "dev-python/paramiko-2.7.1::gentoo" [installed]) (dependency required > > by "dev-vcs/bzr-2.7.0::gentoo" [installed]) > This is part of the python cleanup/upgrade already discussed at length on > this list over the past week, so the answers are already available. Yes, sorry. I've not been keeping up with the list as assiduously as I might. > You have had some useful replies already but one thing I noticed it > that this is brought about by bzr, which is no longer in portage. > Unless you have it installed from an overlay for a particular need of > yours, you should let it be depcleaned. Yes, bazaar was indeed the sticking point. It's been unmaintained for quite a few years, and is written in python. I just unmerged it, then the mega-merge went ahead without problems (though I excluded libreoffice from that merge, for now). I still amn't happy about the error message I got. But I'm not unhappy enough about it to invest the time needed to get up to speed on portage and submit patches. :-( Anyhow, thanks for the tip! > -- > Neil Bothwick > A TRUE Klingon warrior does not comment his code! -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
