On 13/12/2020 21:02, n952162 wrote:

My problem is I can't find a diagnostic methodology.  The one I most
often hear is, update more often, or trail and error solutions.

Although I haven't yet had the grief of something like this python thing, I've always found that unmerging everything that clashes (with care not to break emerge), or updating everything that will update, has always worked for me in the past.

I forgot about that.  That's helped in the past.