Richard Fish wrote:
>> emerge --emptytree system
>>
>> It seems to be fine until it gets to installing openssl (14 of 186 apps
>> to be installed).  The process stops and says that perl 5 is required.

> There is probably a circular dependancy here caused by USE flags.
> 
> You can try:
> 
> USE="minimal -*" emerge --deep --oneshot perl
> 
> You should then be able to run the emerge --emptytree system command
> again.  It will start over from the beginning, but there is no way to
> avoid that right now...

Here is what I did:

- When emerge stopped at openssl I continued with emerge --resume
--skipfirst.

- Perl was merged cleanly without openssl.
- Then sometime later emerge stopped because of the missing openssl, I
think it was wget that failed.
- At this point I merged openssl directly with ebuild merge.
- Then the emerge finished cleanly after anotheder emerge --resume.


I hope I did not miss anything, but I think this was the way it worked
for me.

-- 
Andreas