Python has indeed been a bit of a mess recently for me as well, but I haven't had any major issues. Presumably, this could be attributed to the fact that since python migrations started I have been using the --changed-deps flag to emerge, which I noticed did help to clean a few things up during world upgrades.
I suspect the whole situation is due to maintainers trying to quickly get up to speed Python 3.7 and dropping of Python 2.7 where possible as Rich mentioned earlier. So I didn't really pay much attention to it except for the one or two packages that broke. On my (stable) systems I find myself having 4 versions of python present: 2.7, 3.6, 3.7, and 3.8. However, since the latest bulk move to 3.7 there appears to only be a single package unnecessarily pulling in both 3.6 and 3.8, and that's "dev-lang/python-exec". It does seem rather unnecessary. I do, however, have a rather large number of packages that are built with both +python_targets_python3_7 _and_ +python_targets_python2_7. I suspect the latter dependency will be cleared out soon. I haven't had issues with boost though, with 1.72.0-r1 being the only one installed. Perhaps "--changed-deps" might be worth trying if you haven't? - V On 12/05/2020 14:36, Alessandro Barbieri wrote: > Yes, I have trouble too in upgrading. Python is messy now: I don't want > Python3_8 targets but some package require them (for what reason?). Also > a boost slot conflict. > > Il Mar 12 Mag 2020, 04:03 Raphael MD <raph...@gmail.com > <mailto:raph...@gmail.com>> ha scritto: > > Hello, > > I’ve been realizing to update Gentoo is becoming worse every time. > My 2018 install, that I’ve recently update because python, was still > those days running like a square wheel. > > I was trying to update my KDE profile 17, but was a pain, I’ve > suffered a lot, many blocks, flag problems, circular dependency and > in the end perl messed me and the system entirely broke. > > Now I’m installing a new fresh system, and even in the beginning to > emerge the world update, like manual says, circular dependency > problem with Bluetooth and Systemd. > > I’m long openRC user, I’ve started again using Systemd stage3, and > now suffering with python 3.6/3.8 dependency mess. > > I don’t know if I’m out of luck or Gentoo is becoming a pain to > maintain and update. > > I know, there are some periods is better to avoid update and appear > this time is now! Lol > > Thanks. > > > -- > M.S. Raphael Mejias Dias > Nuclear Engineer | Reactors > > Secure e-mail: raphael.mejias.d...@protonmail.com > <mailto:raphael.mejias.d...@protonmail.com> > PGP Key for raph...@gmail.com <mailto:raph...@gmail.com>: > https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x87BC5A746072F951 >
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