Hello list: Okay, after latest portage sync, all these perl compression modules have gone awry, again. The problem reported by emerge -DNu world -pv is:
emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "~dev-lang/perl-5.10.1". (dependency required by "virtual/perl-IO-Compress-2.020" [installed]) (dependency required by "world" [argument]) And in my latest sync, it seems emerge is not lying, there really is no ebuild for perl-5.10, masked or not. Actually peeking at the ebuild for virtual/perl-IO-Compress-2.020 shows: RDEPEND="|| ( ~dev-lang/perl-5.10.1 ~perl-core/IO-Compress-${PV} )" which, as I understand, makes the ebuild depend upon either of those packages (though I'm not sure what the ~ means in that context). Also, I already have perl-core/IO-Compress-2.020, what?! Alsooo, the latest stable version of perl-core/IO-Compress is actually 2.021, and a simple emerge perl-core/IO-Compress gives: !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=virtual/perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.021" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - virtual/perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.021 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) For more information, see the MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook. (dependency required by "perl-core/IO-Compress-2.021" [ebuild]) (dependency required by "perl-core/IO-Compress" [argument]) I blindly tried perl-cleaner reallyall, which rebuilt some modules, but didn't help the current conundrum. I don't see any related bugs, and latest entries in the relevant ebuilds' changelogs are dated 8/26 (though I'm not sure if thats the same day the new ebuild made it into portage), and I'm still a relatively young gentoo user, so I'm assuming something is wrong on my end... but I'm getting frustrated with these perl compression modules... in my few months as a user, they've caused several problems for portage. Any thoughts or suggestions?