On Thu, Jun 04, 2020 at 09:24:39PM +0000, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote:
> if i exec: "emerge -avDuNt --quiet-build=y @world":
> 
>     > These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:
>     >
>     > Calculating dependencies... done!
>     >
>     > The following USE changes are necessary to proceed:
>     >  (see "package.use" in the portage(5) man page for more details)
>     > #
>     > >=dev-python/docutils-0.16 -python_targets_python2_7
>     >
>     > Would you like to add these changes to your config files? [Yes/No]
> 
> so >=dev-python/docutils-0.16 doesn't want
> python_targets_python2_7.  let's remove it then by
> adding:
> 
>     >=dev-python/docutils-0.16 -python_targets_python2_7
> 
> into: /etc/portage/package.use/stuff
> 
> but then i get this:
> 
>     > The following USE changes are necessary to proceed:
>     >  (see "package.use" in the portage(5) man page for more details)
>     > # required by dev-python/m2r-0.2.1::gentoo[-test]
>     > # required by dev-python/automat-20.2.0::gentoo
>     > # required by dev-python/twisted-20.3.0::gentoo
>     > # required by www-servers/tornado-6.0.4::gentoo
>     > # required by dev-python/ipykernel-5.1.4::gentoo[-test]
>     > # required by dev-python/ipyparallel-6.2.3::gentoo
>     > # required by dev-python/ipython-7.5.0::gentoo[smp]
>     > # required by @selected
>     > # required by @world (argument)
>     > >=dev-python/docutils-0.16 python_targets_python2_7
>     >
>     > Would you like to add these changes to your config files? [Yes/No]
> 
> which i guess means that docutils wants py2.7.

I can't replicate this at all. Could you post (attach, compress if necessary)
your `emerge --info docutils` ?

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Ashley Dixon
suugaku.co.uk

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