$ qemulator Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/qemulator", line 31, in <module> import threading File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 6, in <module> import thread ImportError: No module named thread Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install python with USE="-threads" 2. install qemulator 3. run qemulator Actual Results: complains about missing threading module Expected Results: Program to run Same error did not occur once python was reinstalled with threads.
Created attachment 291905 [details, diff] diff patch implements dep on dev-libs/python[threads]
re-assigned to python team, left untouched for 3 months. Please review and commit if good
Use PYTHON_DEPEND and PYTHON_USE_WITH (depending on EAPI). Example for EAPI="3": PYTHON_DEPEND="2" PYTHON_USE_WITH="threads" Example for EAPI="4-python": PYTHON_DEPEND="<<2[threads]>>"
Packaged masked for removal due to dead upstream. Upstream recommends virtualbricks which is requested in bug #409869, so if you're interested in seeing that package enter Gentoo please make your voice heard there. We won't be fixing this package.