Note that this goes to package.deprecated, rather than package.mask. These are virtuals, so they don't really impact users, and there's really no point to make Portage complain about them being installed. # Michał Górny (2020-03-16) # Virtuals for Python 2 backports. Mostly obsolete, and some of them # are really confusing. Use $(python_gen_cond_dep ...) instead # if your package still needs to support Python 2 (or remove it # for Python 3 only packages). virtual/python-backports_abc virtual/python-enum34 virtual/python-funcsigs virtual/python-futures virtual/python-ipaddress virtual/python-pathlib virtual/python-singledispatch virtual/python-typing virtual/python-unittest-mock -- Best regards, Michał Górny