Hi,

how do you do an update despite perl blocking it?


emerge -a --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps=y --keep-going @world
[...]
dev-lang/perl:0

  (dev-lang/perl-5.22.2:0/5.22::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by
    =dev-lang/perl-5.22* required by 
(virtual/perl-IO-Zlib-1.100.0-r6:0/0::gentoo, installed)
    ^              ^^^^^                                                        
                                                                    
    (and 8 more with the same problem)

  (dev-lang/perl-5.20.2:0/5.20::gentoo, installed) pulled in by
    dev-lang/perl:0/5.20=[-build(-)] required by 
(dev-perl/Encode-Locale-1.30.0-r1:0/0::gentoo, installed)
                 ^^^^^^^^                                                       
                                                              
    =dev-lang/perl-5.20* required by 
(virtual/perl-Pod-Parser-1.620.0:0/0::gentoo, installed)
    ^              ^^^^^                                                        
                                                                    
    (and 56 more with the same problems)
[...]


It seems that some pppl found perl 5.24 somewhere, which doesn't seem to
be available:


eix dev-lang/perl
[I] dev-lang/perl
     Available versions:  5.20.2(0/5.20) ~5.20.2-r1(0/5.20) ~5.22.0(0/5.22) 
~5.22.1(0/5.22) {berkdb debug doc gdbm ithreads}
     Installed versions:  5.20.2(01:11:43 AM 04/06/2015)(berkdb gdbm -debug 
-doc -ithreads)
     Homepage:            http://www.perl.org/
     Description:         Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Report Language


An update is overdue.  What should I do?

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