There is an empty output of: --- # qlist mate-base/mate-applets|grep py --- while there is a statement in at upstream https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-applets/blob/master/NEWS --- ### mate-applets 1.19.4 * drop broken invest-applet and all Python dependencies --- Thus you can emerge mate-applets-1.22.0 without any Python and PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7" should be deleted