Re: [gentoo-user] python breakage

2024-11-02 Thread William Kenworthy
On 2/11/24 10:04, Matt Jolly wrote: Hi Bill, On 2/11/24 10:51, William Kenworthy wrote: My questions (for gentoo) is this another gentoo only hack, or an upstream hard requirement and how can it be turned off. BillK This is PEP 668 in action. https://peps.python.org/pep-0668/ https://pa

Re: [gentoo-user] python breakage

2024-11-01 Thread Matt Jolly
Hi Bill, On 2/11/24 10:51, William Kenworthy wrote: My questions (for gentoo) is this another gentoo only hack, or an upstream hard requirement and how can it be turned off. BillK This is PEP 668 in action. https://peps.python.org/pep-0668/ https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/specificat

[gentoo-user] python breakage

2024-11-01 Thread William Kenworthy
Hi, the complex mess that is python is giving me problems by ignoring my wants ... again! In order to try and stop users shooting themselves in the foot it used the token "EXTERNALLY-MANAGED" in order to prevent unintended updates from within python that do not use portage) ... I presume? Ho