On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 12:54:08AM +0000, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote:
> (i hope i'm not missing much for having ipython with -smp)

Well, you might be, depending on how much load you place on it, and how much you
care about squeezing out the maximum amount of performance  *.   From  use.desc:

        smp - Enable support for multiprocessors or multicore systems

The fact that smp causes the unfortunate circle of pain tells us that it is  one
of the following packages, or their dependencies, is problematic:

	smp? (
		>=dev-python/ipykernel-5.1.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
		>=dev-python/ipyparallel-6.2.3[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
	)"

Do you currently have either of these packages installed ?

* I don't use any of the involved packages, so I'm only guessing here.   Perhaps
someone with greater knowledge of Python on Gentoo could shed some light on this
topic.  It might be worth contacting Michał (mgorny) if no one here  can  derive
the source of this issue.

-- 

Ashley Dixon
suugaku.co.uk

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