>>> Completed installing XML-SAX-0.13 into /var/tmp/portage/XML-SAX-0.13/image/ * checking 32 files for package collisions existing file /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/XML/SAX/placeholder.pl is not owned by this package existing file /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/XML/SAX/Base.pm is not owned by this package existing file /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/XML/SAX/Exception.pm is not owned by this package * spent 0.158257007599 seconds checking for file collisions * This package is blocked because it wants to overwrite * files belonging to other packages (see messages above). * If you have no clue what this is all about report it * as a bug for this package on http://bugs.gentoo.org package dev-perl/XML-SAX-0.13 NOT merged
Where did you run into this (what were you emerging)? I am in the process of removing XML-SAX-Base in favor of XML-SAX since upstream it replaced it ;)
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 114158 ***