I want to update perl to 5.20.2. # emerge -av1u perl These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] dev-lang/perl-5.20.1-r4:0/5.20::gentoo USE="berkdb -debug -doc -gdbm -ithreads" 0 KiB Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 KiB WARNING: One or more updates/rebuilds have been skipped due to a dependency conflict: dev-lang/perl:0 (dev-lang/perl-5.20.2:0/5.20::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) conflicts with =dev-lang/perl-5.20.1* required by (virtual/perl-File-Spec-3.480.0:0/0::gentoo, installed) ^ ^^^^^^^ =dev-lang/perl-5.20.1* required by (virtual/perl-Storable-2.490.0:0/0::gentoo, installed) ^ ^^^^^^^ There are updates available to both of these packages that solve the conflict. Why can't portage check for that? ie. in the event that a conflict is caused by an installed package, try updating that package too. I can add -D to the above and it works, but it also pulls in a bunch of other packages I haven't updated yet. I want to update perl.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 290818 ***
