xmltv-0.5.44 needs dev-perl/XML-Writer-0.6 to compile. ebuild's RDEPEND is set to >=dev-perl/XML-Writer-0.4.6
Hum, I used the readme provided in the package to determine version, sorry if I did wrong, where did you discovered that it needs 0.6 instead than 0.4.6?
if you emerge it without 0.6 installed, it is in the checks. Prerequisite XML::Writer 0.6 not found. It doesn't stops there, it continues, but fails after a while. When i upgraded to 0.6 it emerged cleanly;
Ok, thank you for discovering and explaining, fixed in CVS.