[gentoo-user] Baffled by Perl dependancies

[Grant Edwards]

After syncing today, emerge now tells me that the 2.020 "stable"
version of virtual/perl-IO-Compress that I've had installed
since August requires the "testing" version of Perl (5.10.1)

   !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "~dev-lang/perl-5.10.1" have been masked.
   !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:
   - dev-lang/perl-5.10.1 (masked by: package.mask, ~x86 keyword)
   /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask:
   # Torsten Veller <tove@g.o> (20 Sep 2009)
   # Add perl-5.10 masks (#280724)
   
   
   For more information, see the MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge
   man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook.
   (dependency required by "virtual/perl-IO-Compress-2.020" [installed])
   (dependency required by "virtual/perl-IO-Compress-Zlib-2.020" [installed])
   (dependency required by "world" [argument])

That version of virtual/perl-IO-Compress has been happy with
the stable version of Perl (5.8) for the past four months.  Why
all of a sudden today does it now require Perl 5.10?

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