'emerge -pvuDN simplecv' fails with: root@lynx:/root(25)# emerge -pvuDN simplecv These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! The following USE changes are necessary to proceed: (see "package.use" in the portage(5) man page for more details) # required by dev-python/simplecv-1.3::gentoo # required by simplecv (argument) >=dev-python/ipython-5.5.0 -python_targets_python3_6 If I add '>=dev-python/ipython-5.5.0 -python_targets_python3_6' to package.use, 'emerge -pvuDN simplecv' fails with: ... root@lynx:/root(27)# emerge -pvuDN simplecv These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] dev-libs/mathjax-2.7.4::gentoo USE="doc examples" 0 KiB [ebuild N ] dev-python/ipython_genutils-0.2.0::gentoo USE="{-test}" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_6 -python3_4 -python3_5" 0 KiB ... [ebuild N ] dev-python/ipython-5.5.0::sage-on-gentoo USE="examples matplotlib notebook qt5 smp wxwidgets -doc -nbconvert {-test}" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_6 -python3_4 -python3_5" 0 KiB [ebuild N ] dev-python/simplecv-1.3::gentoo USE="shell {-test}" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7" 0 KiB [ebuild N ] dev-python/twisted-18.7.0::gentoo USE="crypt soap -conch -http2 -serial {-test}" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_6 -python3_4 -python3_5 -python3_7" 0 KiB [uninstall ] dev-python/twisted-core-15.2.1::gentoo USE="crypt gtk -serial {-test}" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7" [blocks b ] dev-python/twisted-core ("dev-python/twisted-core" is blocking dev-python/twisted-18.7.0) [blocks b ] dev-python/twisted ("dev-python/twisted" is blocking dev-python/twisted-core-15.2.1) [ebuild N ] www-servers/tornado-5.0.2::gentoo USE="-doc -examples {-test}" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_6 -python3_4 -python3_5" 0 KiB ... The following USE changes are necessary to proceed: (see "package.use" in the portage(5) man page for more details) # required by dev-python/qtconsole-4.3.1::gentoo >=dev-python/ipython-5.5.0 python_targets_python3_6 After masking >=dev-python/ipython-5.5.0 the issue disappeared.
See also https://bugs.gentoo.org/662664.
This doesn't seem related to simplecv at all. I'm going to guess it's actually a dupe of your other bug #662664 as I'm unable to reproduce it.