When I try to emerge gdm I get the error that it lacks the perl module XML::Parser Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 40610 [Wed Dec 01 09:03:03] tobias@tobias:~/nbsrc $ emerge info Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.0, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0, 2.6.9-gentoo-r4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r4 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.50GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.6 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.92.0.2-r1 Headers: sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-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/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS=" http://mirror.gentoo.no/ http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j1" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X Xaw3d aalib acl acpi acpi4linux adns alsa apache apache2 apm audiofile avi bcmath berkdb bitmap-fonts blender-game calendar caps cdparanoia cdr cdrom cgi chroot cjk crypt curl dba dbm dbx devfs26 dga distcache distribution divx4linux doc droproot dvb dvd dvdread emacs emacs-w3 encode escreen f77 fam fastcgi fbcon flac flash fortran ftp gb gd gd-external gdbm ggi gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml imagemagick imlib innodb ipv6 irda jack java jpeg junit kde ladcca lcms leim libgda libwww lirc mad mbox mcal memlimit motif mozilla mpeg mpi mule mysql nas ncurses nls nocd oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pdflib perl plotutils png pnp postgres python qt quicktime readline ruby samba scanner slang socks5 speex spell sqlite sse ssl svga sysvipc tcltk tcpd tetex threads tiff truetype trusted unicode usb videos wavelan wmf x86 xface xinerama xml xml2 xmms xosd xv xvid yaz zeo zlib zvbi"
Is dev-perl/XML-Parser installed? If yes, which version? dev-util/intltool lists it correctly as dependency.
search *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 41124 ***
Right, this was a duplicate. I was only searching for "gdm", forgot to search for "XML::Parser".