I doubt goblins wrote any part of gentoo, from what Neil wrote me earlier if memory serves the language is actually Portagese.
On Sat, 12 Dec 2020, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2020 09:22:40 > From: Alan Mackenzie <a...@muc.de> > Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gobbledegook error message from emerge. > > 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! > > --
