On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 2:36 PM Philip Webb <purslow@ca.inter.net> wrote:
200713 Adam Carter wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 5:32 AM Philip Webb <purslow@ca.inter.net> wrote:
>> root:543 ~> emerge -pv pycairo
...
>> WARNING: One or more updates/rebuilds have been skipped
>> due to a dependency conflict:
>> dev-python/pycairo:0
>>   (dev-python/pycairo-1.19.1:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
>>   USE="-doc -examples -test" ABI_X86="(64)" PYTHON_TARGETS=
>>   "(-pypy3) python3_6 python3_7 -python3_8 (-python3_9)" conflicts with
>>   >=dev-python/pycairo-1.11.1 [python_targets_python2_7(-),
>>   python_targets_python3_6(-),python_targets_python3_7(-),
>>   -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(-)] required by
>>   (dev-python/pygobject-3.34.0:3/3::gentoo, installed)
>>   USE="cairo -examples -test" ABI_X86="(64)"
>>   PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_6 python3_7 -python3_8"
> I think it's because dev-python/pycairo-1.19.1 doesnt have python2_7 ,
> which dev-python/pycairo-1.18.2 does and pygobject requires it.
> You could try removing python2_7 from pygobject,
> but i'm guessing there will be other dependencies that wont allow that.

Thanks for the suggestion ; that does solve the problem, tho' how anyone
could derive that info from the Portage output is quite beyond me

I cut and pasted the output into what my brain thought was a sensible order.

The problem is with pygobject, so what does it need?
USE="cairo -examples -test"
ABI_X86="(64)"
PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_6 python3_7 -python3_8"

So out of that stuff, what does pycairo-1.18.2 have that pycairo-1.19.1 is missing?
1.18
USE="-doc -examples -test"
PYTHON_TARGETS="(-pypy3%) python2_7 python3_6 python3_7 -python3_8 (-python3_9)"
1.19
USE="-doc -examples -test"
ABI_X86="(64)"
PYTHON_TARGETS="(-pypy3) python3_6 python3_7 -python3_8 (-python3_9)"

Ok so 1.19 doesn't have python2_7, so while pygobject is using it, pycairo will need to have it. So, you tried rebuilding pygobject without 2_7, and luckily nothing else that was using pygobject needed 2_7 so it worked.