Re: Python 3.13 and massive USE flag changes.

On 6/8/26 6:39 PM, D. Ben Knoble wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 8, 2026 at 5:07 PM Dale <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 6/8/26 3:47 PM, D. Ben Knoble wrote:
>>
>> This happens every time. If some packages don't add python-3.14
>> support before 3.14 is made default, portage will tell you to do
>> outrageous things to fix it, and they won't work. Overlay packages
>> are especially bad in this regard.
>>
>> Yeah. I did actually manage a combination of USE overrides for
>> PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET/PYTHON_TARGETS for the couple of overlay packages
>> I have that are stuck on 3.13, but I also have convinced all but one
>> (so far) to add 3.14 support, so _most_ of my nightmare is gone.
>>
>> For me it was termux-language-server and autotiling (both GURU
>> packages). The latter has had no response or update yet.
>>
>>
>>
>> In my case it is elogviewer which I think is in the Gentoo repository.  I suspect the person that maintains it isn't able to update it right now but it will be soon.  That person may be on vacation, hurt or sick, or something.  As far as I know it is a official Gentoo tool.
> Sure; I sent the maintainers (equery m <pkg>) of the GURU packages
> email when I noticed, just in case they weren't aware. Figured it
> couldn't hurt :)
>


I'd think they got a email about the change already, it's on -dev I'm 
sure, but it never hurts to make sure.  Who knows, marked as spam and 
into the trash it goes and nobody knows.  LOL

Dale

:-)  :-)

P. S.  My old backup rig is still working on it.  Poor thing.