Re: [gentoo-user] a few blockers I can't figure out

[covici@ccs.covici.com]

Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 5:55 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Got it, finally :-)
> >
> > fail2ban wants sys-apps/systemd[python(-)], and systemd-219_p112 is the
> > highest version with an explicit python USE flag. All later versions do
> > not have the flag at all.
> >
> > Your choices are either to have fail2ban fixed to deal with recent
> > systemd USE, and tolerate the systemd downgrade meanwhile; or to replace
> > fail2ban with something equivalent
> >
> 
> Sounds like this is covered by:
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=558168
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=555502
> 
> It seems to me like this is a portage issue with the resolver.
> Running emerge -1 python-systemd sounds like it fixes the issue.
> Apparently once it is installed portage will figure out it needs to
> hang onto it.

And portage will not let me do that even though I have removed the
explicit python use flag from sys-apps/systemd -- in fact it will not
let me reinstall the same version of systemd without the python use
flag.


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