[gentoo-user] Re: Baffled by Perl dependancies

[Grant Edwards]

On 2009-12-04, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote:
> 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?

Somehow today's "sync" broke things. 

Things seemed to be OK after manually updating perl-IO-Compress
and removing perl-IO-Compress-Zlib:

  emerge perl-IO-Compress
  emerge -C perl-IO-Compress-Zlib

Maybe someday I'll understand Portage, but I doubt it -- it's
been 5 years.

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