[gentoo-user] Problem while doing `emerge --emptytree system

[Jason Castonguay <jcast@snet.net>]

Hi listers.

I'm in the process of installing gentoo for the first time and am now in
the process of going from stage 2 to stage 3.  I am trying to do

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.
This is understandable, but I thought emerge was supposed to be "aware" of
this sort of thing and install apps in the correct order.  I did a

emerge --pretend --emptytree system |less

and perl 5 is there, but further down the list of things to be installed
(after openssl).

What should I do -- install perl separately?  Any thoughts and/or
suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks very much.


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