tundra portage # emerge --pretend update These are the packages that I would merge, in order. Calculating system dependencies.................................................................................. done! [ebuild U] sys-apps/portage-1.8.8-r1 to / [ebuild U] sys-libs/db-1.85-r1 to / << HERE [ebuild U] sys-devel/perl-5.6.1-r3 to / [ebuild U] net-misc/rsync-2.5.2 to / [ebuild U] sys-apps/bzip2-1.0.2 to / [ebuild U] sys-apps/diffutils-2.7.7 to / [ebuild U] sys-apps/fileutils-4.1.4-r1 to / [ebuild U] sys-apps/grub-0.90-r5 to / [ebuild U] sys-apps/iptables-1.2.5 to / [ebuild U] sys-apps/lsof-4.60-r1 to / [ebuild U] sys-apps/man-1.5i-r2 to / [ebuild U] sys-apps/sh-utils-2.0.11-r1 to / [ebuild U] sys-devel/gettext-0.10.40 to / [ebuild U] sys-devel/libtool-1.4.1-r1 to / [ebuild U] sys-libs/gdbm-1.8.0-r4 to / [ebuild U] sys-apps/dcron-2.7-r7 to / [ebuild U] sys-apps/devfsd-1.3.21 to / tundra portage # pkglist | grep db sys-devel/gdb-5.0-r2 sys-libs/db-3.2.3h-r4 << HERE sys-libs/gdbm-1.8.0-r3 sys-libs/pwdb-0.61-r3
This is actually correct. Perl requires db-3 and db-1 to be installed.