On Friday 04 December 2009 20:31:05 Grant Edwards 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 <[email protected]> (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?
>
All answers to such questions are contained in the ebuild. Looking into them
is an investigative technique I *highly* recommend. From
virtual/perl-IO-Compress/perl-IO-Compress-2.020.ebuild:
RDEPEND="|| ( ~dev-lang/perl-5.10.1 ~perl-core/IO-Compress-${PV} )"
So, virtual/perl-IO-Compress does not in fact DEPEND on perl-5.10.1.
It DEPENDS on either perl-5.10.1 or IO-Compress-2.020
I bet you have the virtual installed and not the explicit ebuild.
emerge =IO-Compress-2.020
ought to solve your problem
--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
