[Slackbuilds-users] mutual dependency? [was: sbotools: multiline build options]

[J. Milgram]

On 5/27/26 16:20, fourtysixandtwo wrote:
> If you've been using pip to install and uninstall...that's certainly
> not helping the situation and is not recommended as root as it cannot
> be trusted to apply the proper permissions.
Unfortunately I didn't realize this was the case.  Up to now, if I found 
no Slackbuild,  I'd install with pip. "Don't do that", I guess.

> When I previously
> suggested removing python-importlib_metadata, I was talking about
> removing the slackware SBo package.
Understood, and I did exactly that a couple of tries ago. No luck. "pip3 
uninstall" was a subsequent act of desperation.
> I would start with cleaning up any python stuff not properly installed
> via slackware packaging.
OK...

pip3 list & compare with /var/log/packages -> quite a few pip3-installed 
packages found and removed. I  shudder to  think what I may have broken 
along the way...
> # as root get a list of anything pip installed and uninstall them.
> (If you have had pip install anything as your regular user, that can
> cause problems too, but is out of scope for the moment)
> pip3 list --user
> pip3 uninstall <list from above if there is anything>
pip3 list --user -> reported two packages, removed both
> # sbocheck has a list of "out-of-tree builds...", remove those packages
sbocheck tells me:

Checking for bumped SlackBuilds...      No build numbers differ.
Checking for out-of-tree builds...      No out-of-tree _SBo builds.

> # one example I know is installed, added zipp and importlib just in case...
> removepkg python3-pep517 python-zipp python-importlib_metadata
all of these were already  gone

> # another old build that might cause issues
> removepkg python3-pyproject-metadata
done.
>
> Try to build python3-setuptools-opt again and let us know.
I  had already managed to build  it but  just to  make sure:

sboinstall --reinstall python3-setuptools-opt
Built:
python3-flit_core python3-installer python3-pyproject-hooks
python3-build python3-packaging-opt python3-wheel python3-setuptools-opt

Good.

But still same issue with python-zipp and python-importlib_metadata

Sleep first, then regroup and try again.

thanks!

Judah

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