Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 4 Jun 2020 23:42:50 +0100, Ashley Dixon wrote: > >> Providing he's just adding the line to a package.use file with a text >> editor, that's just manually doing the work of etc-update. We need >> the `emerge --info docutils` output to see full information about his >> Python environment. > Except that etc-update also adds a backtrace as comments, allowing him to > trace the cause. > >
That backtrace is in the OP's original post. The first one doesn't give much of one, none really. The second one gives a list of packages. Either way, it was a circular problem. It seems the emerge --info for the package gave the clue which I don't see anywhere in the output of emerge. Dale :-) :-)
