I'm not sure if this is an emerge problem or what but the emerge for perl is fairly typical: Calculating system dependencies |has_version() in global scope: sys-apps/util-li nux-2.11z-r8 \has_version() in global scope: sys-libs/pwdb-0.61-r4 has_version() in global scope: sys-libs/pwdb-0.62 ...done! Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 'emerge perl' 2. 3. Actual Results: As in details. Expected Results: The spinner should simply spin, as opposed to giving out these messages. # emerge info Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.4.18-1-686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.18-1-686 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 1600+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.8p1 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58 Automake: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -mcpu=athlon-xp -funroll-loops -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -mcpu=athlon-xp -funroll-loops -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu 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 Xaw3d acpi alsa apache2 apm arts avi berkdb crypt cups dga encode flash foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imlib java jikes jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype wmf wxwindows x86 xface xml xml2 xmms xv zlib"
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 40867 ***
