[gentoo-user] Apparently 2.4 is not >= 2.2?

[Steven Lembark <lembark@wrkhors.com>]

Before I spend a lot of time backtracking all of this...

Q: Are either of these issues well-known pathologies of emerge?
 
Recently built a new Gentoo system by creating a new LV, extracting
stage3-amd64-openrc-20211205T170532Z.tar.xz and going through the 
handbook stages to get a running sytem.

I then installed a variety of packages I have on the current system
like fonts, claws-mail.

Catch is that I cannot update the sytem:

# $emerge --update --fetchonly @world;
Calculating dependencies... done!

The following packages are causing rebuilds:

  (x11-base/xorg-server-1.20.14:0/1.20.14::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) causes rebuilds for:
    (x11-drivers/xf86-input-synaptics-1.9.1:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
    (x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-2.10.6:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)

emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy ">=dev-lang/python-exec-2:2/2=[python_targets_python2_7(-),python_targets_python3_6(-),-python_single_target_pypy(-),-python_single_target_pypy3(-),-python_single_target_python2_7(-),-python_single_target_python3_5(-),-python_single_target_python3_6(-),-python_single_target_python3_7(-)]".
(dependency required by "dev-python/pytest-runner-4.2::gentoo" [installed])
(dependency required by "@selected" [set])
(dependency required by "@world" [argument])


It seems that I have a recent enough python-exec installed: 2.4 >= 2.2.

# emerge --search dev-lang/python-exec

[ Results for search key : dev-lang/python-exec ]
Searching...

*  dev-lang/python-exec
      Latest version available: 2.4.8
      Latest version installed: 2.4.8
      Size of files: 81 KiB
      Homepage:      https://github.com/mgorny/python-exec/
      Description:   Python script wrapper
      License:       BSD-2


I'm having a similar issue with firefox-bin:

# $emerge firefox-bin;
Calculating dependencies... done!

emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy ">=dev-python/markupsafe-0.9.2[python_targets_python3_6(-),python_targets_python3_7(-),-python_single_target_pypy3(-),-python_single_target_python2_7(-),-python_single_target_python3_6(-),-python_single_target_python3_7(-),-python_single_target_python3_8(-),-python_single_target_python3_9(-)]".
(dependency required by "dev-python/mako-1.1.3::gentoo" [installed])
(dependency required by "media-libs/mesa-20.1.0::gentoo" [installed])
(dependency required by "x11-libs/gtk+-3.24.29::gentoo[X]" [ebuild])
(dependency required by "www-client/firefox-bin-95.0.1::gentoo" [ebuild])
(dependency required by "firefox-bin" [argument])


But I also seem to have a recent markupsafe, if 2.0.1 >= 0.9.2??

# emerge --search dev-python/markupsafe

[ Results for search key : dev-python/markupsafe ]
Searching...

*  dev-python/markupsafe
      Latest version available: 2.0.1
      Latest version installed: 2.0.1
      Size of files: 19 KiB
      Homepage:      https://pypi.org/project/MarkupSafe/
      Description:   Implements a XML/HTML/XHTML Markup safe string for Python
      License:       BSD



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Steven Lembark
Workhorse Computing
lembark@wrkhors.com
+1 888 359 3508