one of the dependencies of mail-filter/razor is virtual/perl-net-ping. That however has new version virtual/perl-net-ping-2.410.0 unmasked which requires still masked dev-lang/perl-5.18.1. That leads to one of the problems 1. emerge -pv perl-net-ping These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U #] dev-lang/perl-5.18.1:0/5.18 [5.16.3:0/5.16] USE="berkdb ithreads -debug -doc -gdbm" 13,731 kB [ebuild U ] virtual/perl-net-ping-2.410.0 [2.36] 0 kB Total: 2 packages (2 upgrades), Size of downloads: 13,731 kB The following mask changes are necessary to proceed: (see "package.unmask" in the portage(5) man page for more details) # required by virtual/perl-PodParser-1.610.0 # required by perl-core/Getopt-Long-2.390.0 # required by virtual/perl-Getopt-Long-2.390.0 # required by app-misc/gcstar-1.7.0 # required by @selected # required by @world (argument) # /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: # Patrick Lauer <patrick@gentoo.org> (14 Aug 2013) # Untested / unconfirmed major bump of perl #479064 # Needs proper testing before being unleashed =dev-lang/perl-5.18.1 NOTE: The --autounmask-keep-masks option will prevent emerge from creating package.unmask or ** keyword changes. 2. emerge -avuDt world These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies... done! [nomerge ] mail-filter/amavisd-new-2.8.1 USE="mysql razor snmp spamassassin -courier -dkim -ldap -postgres -qmail -zmq" [nomerge ] mail-filter/razor-2.85-r1 [ebuild N ] virtual/perl-net-ping-2.36 0 kB Total: 1 package (1 new), Size of downloads: 0 kB WARNING: One or more updates have been skipped due to a dependency conflict: dev-lang/perl:0 (dev-lang/perl-5.18.1::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) conflicts with =dev-lang/perl-5.16* required by (virtual/perl-Attribute-Handlers-0.930.0-r1::gentoo, installed) (dev-lang/perl-5.18.1::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) conflicts with =dev-lang/perl-5.16* required by (virtual/perl-libnet-1.220.0-r1::gentoo, installed) (dev-lang/perl-5.18.1::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) conflicts with =dev-lang/perl-5.16* required by (virtual/perl-File-Temp-0.220.0-r2::gentoo, installed) (dev-lang/perl-5.18.1::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) conflicts with =dev-lang/perl-5.16* required by (virtual/perl-PodParser-1.610.0::gentoo, installed) (dev-lang/perl-5.18.1::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) conflicts with =dev-lang/perl-5.16* required by (virtual/perl-MIME-Base64-3.130.0-r2::gentoo, installed) (dev-lang/perl-5.18.1::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) conflicts with =dev-lang/perl-5.16* required by (virtual/perl-Package-Constants-0.20.0-r2::gentoo, installed) (dev-lang/perl-5.18.1::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) conflicts with =dev-lang/perl-5.16* required by (virtual/perl-digest-base-1.170.0-r1::gentoo, installed) (dev-lang/perl-5.18.1::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) conflicts with =dev-lang/perl-5.16* required by (virtual/perl-IO-Zlib-1.100.0-r2::gentoo, installed) (dev-lang/perl-5.18.1::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) conflicts with =dev-lang/perl-5.16* required by (virtual/perl-Time-HiRes-1.972.500-r1::gentoo, installed) !!! The following update(s) have been skipped due to unsatisfied dependencies !!! triggered by backtracking: virtual/perl-net-ping:0 Workaround: For now adding >=virtual/perl-net-ping-2.41 to /etc/portage/package.mask works, but probably should be masked in the tree too till unmasking perl-5.18
Oy. Sorry :) That was a versioning mistake ( 2.410 vs. 2.41 ) and is now fixed
