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 <adamcarter3@gmail.com> 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=

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