On Wednesday, 22 August 2018 15:24:35 BST Alarig Le Lay wrote:
> Hi Rich,
> 
> Thanks a lot for your explanation. It’s a bit clearer for me now :)

On a practical level you can keyword the ~arch version of the package, or to 
carry on with your life as is at present add:

 --exclude app-office/libreoffice-bin

when you run emerge.  At some point a libreoffice-bin version not requiring 
python_3.5 should be made stable.

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Regards,
Mick