Created attachment 353752 [details, diff] libnl-3.2.22-r2.ebuild.patch When the use of distutils-r1.eclass is behind a USE flag, as in dev-libs/libnl-3.2.22-r2, DISTUTILS_OPTIONAL=1 must be set prior to inheriting the eclass. Attached is a patch to do so and to include the proper deps behind the python USE flag.
That looks right. Thanks for the patch.