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Am 27.02.2021 um 14:08 schrieb Grant Edwards:
> On one of my Gentoo machines Python 2.7 has not been removed by
> deplcean as it has on others, and I've been unable to determine
> why. It's not in the world file, and 'equery d python' doesn't show
> anything depending on 2.7. I have no python targets specified in
> make.conf nor in any package use flag settings.
>
> How do you determine why portage thinks a certain slot of a package
> is required? None of the documentation I an find on portage discusses
> finding packages dependent on particular slots.


Have you tried #emerge -av --depclean =<atom> ?

On Sat, 27 Feb 2021 13:08:59 -0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:

> On one of my Gentoo machines Python 2.7 has not been removed by
> deplcean as it has on others, and I've been unable to determine
> why. It's not in the world file, and 'equery d python' doesn't show
> anything depending on 2.7. I have no python targets specified in
> make.conf nor in any package use flag settings.

emerge -cpv python:2.7


--
Neil Bothwick

I have seen the truth, and it makes no sense.

On 2021-02-27, hitachi303 <gentoo-user@konstantinhansen.de> wrote:
> Am 27.02.2021 um 14:08 schrieb Grant Edwards:
>
>> How do you determine why portage thinks a certain slot of a package
>> is required? None of the documentation I an find on portage discusses
>> finding packages dependent on particular slots.
>
> Have you tried #emerge -av --depclean =<atom> ?

Thanks!

That does it:

# emerge -av --depclean =dev-lang/python-2.7.18-r6

Calculating dependencies... done!
dev-lang/python-2.7.18-r6 pulled in by:
www-client/chromium-88.0.4324.182 requires >=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7[xml]

I'm a bit surprised that 'equery d' is unable to figure that out.

The other option I found is to uninstall python:2.7, then do emerge
-auvNDt, and see why it's being re-installed, but that's a bit
drastic.

And now that I know the answer it makes sense: the machines where
python 2.7 was removed by depclean don't have Chromium installed.

--
Grant

On 2021-02-27, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Feb 2021 13:08:59 -0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> On one of my Gentoo machines Python 2.7 has not been removed by
>> deplcean as it has on others, and I've been unable to determine
>> why. It's not in the world file, and 'equery d python' doesn't show
>> anything depending on 2.7. I have no python targets specified in
>> make.conf nor in any package use flag settings.
>
> emerge -cpv python:2.7

Yep, I can't believe I didn't know that...