Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

[Matti Nykyri <matti.nykyri@iki.fi>]

> On Apr 12, 2015, at 20:23, »Q« <boxcars@gmx.net> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 12 Apr 2015 11:12:38 +0200
> "J. Roeleveld" <joost@antarean.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Saturday, April 11, 2015 08:42:20 PM Alan Grimes wrote:
> 
>>> PYTHON_TARGETS="${PYTHON_TARGETS} python2_7 python3_4"
>>> PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7"
>> 
>> These are set in your profile, please do not override this.
>> In other words, please remove these 2 lines.
> 
> I'm not the OP.  (I spend less time than him on maintaining my system.)
> 
> Should those variables really not be set in make.conf?  I added them to
> make.conf some time back because portage complained about them, and if I
> comment them out, it complains again, like so:
> 
> $ emerge -puDv --changed-use @world
> 
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
> 
> Calculating dependencies |
> 
> !!! Problem resolving dependencies for sys-apps/util-linux from @system
> ... done!
> 
> !!! The ebuild selected to satisfy "sys-apps/util-linux" has unmet requirements.
> - sys-apps/util-linux-2.25.2-r2::gentoo USE="ncurses nls pam (policykit) python suid tty-helpers udev unicode -caps -cramfs -fdformat (-selinux) -slang -static-libs -systemd -test" ABI_X86="64 -32 -x32" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="-python2_7 -python3_3 -python3_4" PYTHON_TARGETS="-python2_7 -python3_3 -python3_4"
> 
>  The following REQUIRED_USE flag constraints are unsatisfied:
>    python? ( exactly-one-of ( python_single_target_python3_3 python_single_target_python3_4 python_single_target_python2_7 ) )
> 
>  The above constraints are a subset of the following complete expression:
>    python? ( exactly-one-of ( python_single_target_python3_3 python_single_target_python3_4 python_single_target_python2_7 ) python_single_target_python3_3? ( python_targets_python3_3 ) python_single_target_python3_4? ( python_targets_python3_4 ) python_single_target_python2_7? ( python_targets_python2_7 ) )
> 
> (dependency required by "@system" [set])
> (dependency required by "@world" [argument])

This is because you have set the "python" use flag in your make.conf (or package.use).

Remove the python useflag and the problem goes away. It is not set by the profile but by you. Do you really need it?

-- 
-Matti