The problem is actually dev-perl/XML-Twig, but mythtv depends on it. So when trying to install dev-perl/XML-Twig-3-13 errors come. The solution is to install the unstable version of dev-perl/XML-Twig-3.15-r1. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge mythtv 2. 3. Actual Results: Errors by dev-perl/XML-Twig-3-13 Expected Results: No errors Portage 2.0.50-r11 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r1, 2.6.7-gentoo-r11) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.7-gentoo-r11 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i386-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/share/config:/usr/kde/3.3/env:/usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo cdr crypt cups dvd encode esd foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml imlib jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww linguas_de linguas_es mad mikmod motif mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd truetype x86 xml2 xmms xprint xv zlib"
^j^: what package exactly needs dev-perl/XML-Twig? Because mythtv doesn't directly depend on it and I don't know what package does....
Need more info on what package this depended on... because it wasn't MythTV directly.