[gentoo-user] Re: Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

[»Q« <boxcars@gmx.net>]

On Sun, 12 Apr 2015 21:35:07 +0300
Matti Nykyri <matti.nykyri@iki.fi> wrote:

> > On Apr 12, 2015, at 20:23, »Q« <boxcars@gmx.net> wrote:
> > 
> > On Sun, 12 Apr 2015 11:12:38 +0200
> > "J. Roeleveld" <joost@antarean.org> wrote:
> >   
> >> On Saturday, April 11, 2015 08:42:20 PM Alan Grimes wrote:  
> >   
> >>> PYTHON_TARGETS="${PYTHON_TARGETS} python2_7 python3_4"
> >>> PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7"  
> >> 
> >> These are set in your profile, please do not override this.
> >> In other words, please remove these 2 lines.  
> > 
> > I'm not the OP.  (I spend less time than him on maintaining my
> > system.)
> > 
> > Should those variables really not be set in make.conf?  I added
> > them to make.conf some time back because portage complained about
> > them, and if I comment them out, it complains again, like so:

> >  The following REQUIRED_USE flag constraints are unsatisfied:
> >    python? ( exactly-one-of ( python_single_target_python3_3
> > python_single_target_python3_4 python_single_target_python2_7 ) )

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> This is because you have set the "python" use flag in your make.conf
> (or package.use).
> 
> Remove the python useflag and the problem goes away. It is not set by
> the profile but by you. Do you really need it?

I enabled it globally (in make.conf), but I think I only need it for one
or two packages.  If I remove it from USE, I get portage complaining
about other things.