I went through the list of conflicts and made a temporary @set of packages for emerge to re-install. Worked like a charm. A number of the conflicts are things that should be in a "preserved libraries" type of list, they are actually quite able to rebuild with the new perl version. I have, however, had to back off newest versions of sddm and chromium (browser) due to some performance failures: /etc/portage/package.keywords is your friend! On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 9:55 PM, Adam Carter wrote: > It doesn't look like just vim - it looks like exiftool, graphite2, > >> cups-filters, gvim, and imagemagick all are blocking. >> >> I'd guess that these packages need a version bump or you need to unmask >> one of the newer builds (most likely they haven't been stabilized yet.) >> > > Agree - my amd64 system upgraded perl to 5.22 on Friday, so re-sync, and > try again. Also to help resolve upgrade issues i firstly add --deep to > emerge's switches and if that doesnt help, bump up --backtrack= > > -- -- G.Wolfe Woodbury redwolfe@gmail.com