[gentoo-user] circular dependency - please help

[gentoo-user] circular dependency - please help

[Helmut Jarausch]

Hi,

I do need python2.7 since I do need media-gfx/gimp.

Unfortunately, I have masked dev-python/setuptools version >= 47.0.0  
too late.
Now I cannot emerge dev-python/setuptools-46.4.0-r1 since this needs
dev-python/pbr which in turn cannot be installed without setuptools for  
Python2.7.

How can I get out of this dilemma?

Many thanks for a hint,
Helmut

Re: [gentoo-user] circular dependency - please help

[Jack]

On 2020.06.21 06:21, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I do need python2.7 since I do need media-gfx/gimp.
> 
> Unfortunately, I have masked dev-python/setuptools version >= 47.0.0  
> too late.
> Now I cannot emerge dev-python/setuptools-46.4.0-r1 since this needs
> dev-python/pbr which in turn cannot be installed without setuptools  
> for Python2.7.
> 
> How can I get out of this dilemma?
> 
> Many thanks for a hint,
> Helmut
gimp can use python2_7 but it does not require it.  I have gimp  
installed with the following USE flags (per eix)

alsa jpeg2k mng udev -aalib -aqua -debug -doc -gnome -heif -openexr  
-postscript -python -test -unwind -vector-icons -webp -wmf -xpm  
CPU_FLAGS_PPC="-altivec" CPU_FLAGS_X86="mmx sse"  
PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="-python2_7"

Re: [gentoo-user] circular dependency - please help

[Walter Dnes]

On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 12:57:56PM -0400, Jack wrote

> gimp can use python2_7 but it does not require it.  I have gimp  
> installed with the following USE flags (per eix)
> 
> alsa jpeg2k mng udev -aalib -aqua -debug -doc -gnome -heif -openexr  
> -postscript -python -test -unwind -vector-icons -webp -wmf -xpm  
> CPU_FLAGS_PPC="-altivec" CPU_FLAGS_X86="mmx sse"  
> PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="-python2_7"

  Interesting.  Does it lose any functionality?  Speaking of which, why
would you build GIMP with "alsa" and "udev".

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] circular dependency - please help

[Jack]

On 2020.06.21 17:28, Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 12:57:56PM -0400, Jack wrote
> 
> > gimp can use python2_7 but it does not require it.  I have gimp
> > installed with the following USE flags (per eix)
> >
> > alsa jpeg2k mng udev -aalib -aqua -debug -doc -gnome -heif -openexr
> > -postscript -python -test -unwind -vector-icons -webp -wmf -xpm
> > CPU_FLAGS_PPC="-altivec" CPU_FLAGS_X86="mmx sse"
> > PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="-python2_7"
> 
>   Interesting.  Does it lose any functionality?  Speaking of which,  
> why would you build GIMP with "alsa" and "udev".

If you're asking me,  I have not found any missing functionality, but I  
don't use gimp often, so it's possible.  I have no explicit mention of  
gimp in /etc/portage, so those are apparently just the accumulation of  
various settings in make.conf on top of the gimp defaults.  Those two  
in particular are global USE flags, so I suppose you would have to read  
the ebuild to see what effect they have on the build.

Re: [gentoo-user] circular dependency - please help

[Helmut Jarausch]

On 06/21/2020 12:21:08 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I do need python2.7 since I do need media-gfx/gimp.
> 
> Unfortunately, I have masked dev-python/setuptools version >= 47.0.0  
> too late.
> Now I cannot emerge dev-python/setuptools-46.4.0-r1 since this needs
> dev-python/pbr which in turn cannot be installed without setuptools  
> for Python2.7.
> 
> How can I get out of this dilemma?
> 

I have been lucky.
dev-python/pbr is a pure Python package. I've just copied from
/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pbr
to
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pbr
and removed all __pycache__ folders