On Sat, 17 Sep 2016 19:12:40 -0400, Philip Webb wrote:

> root:522 ~> emerge -pv perl
> 
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
> 
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild   R    ] dev-lang/perl-5.20.2:0/5.20::gentoo  USE="-berkdb
> -debug -doc gdbm -ithreads" 0 KiB
> 
> Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 KiB
> 
> WARNING: One or more updates/rebuilds have been skipped due to a
> dependency conflict:
> 
> dev-lang/perl:0

Is this because you are trying to emerge perl in isolation? This result
is not unexpected as you have other packages built against the older
version and you have not told portage to deal with that.

What happens if you do emerge -uaD @world?


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