xpyb is an unmaintained piece of shit that periodically breaks. In bug 649876, maksbotan noted that only pycairo (which until recently was in the same unmaintained-piece-of-shit category :) depends on xpyb, and only with the xcb USE flag enabled -- and most importantly nothing in the tree depends on pycairo[xcb]. We'd love it if we could just drop this flag from pycairo and rid ourselves of the hassle of keeping up with xpyb breakages. Pretty please?
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=3b522ecb7c9890373b69c816de567e0296842c76 commit 3b522ecb7c9890373b69c816de567e0296842c76 Author: Tim Harder <radhermit@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2018-03-23 22:46:33 +0000 Commit: Tim Harder <radhermit@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2018-03-23 22:48:41 +0000 dev-python/pycairo: drop xcb use flag and related deps Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/649926 dev-python/pycairo/pycairo-1.16.3-r1.ebuild | 53 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 53 insertions(+)