Re: [gentoo-user] unclear (to me) errors from portage

[J. Roeleveld]

On Thursday, August 07, 2014 11:33:34 PM gottlieb@×××.edu wrote:
> I was away for two weeks and now one of my systems cannot be updated due
> to  conflicts.  The entire (long) emerge output is at the end of
> this msg.
>
>
> ------------------  The first conflict is -------------------

<snipped long list of conflicts>

I notice a few perl blockers.
You could try the following:

# emerge -vuD1 $(qlist -IC 'virtual/perl-*')
# perl-cleaner --all -v -- -v

And then retry to update world.
I've been encountering some perl blockages myself, and this cleared it up for 
me.

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Joost