Created attachment 805042 [details] Logs dev-perl/XML-Parser is missing as a dependency and hence breaking the installation.
Created attachment 805045 [details] emerge info
This seems to be another instance of bug 596664. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 596664 ***
Yes, please run perl-cleaner --all.
@Sam James Thanks, I didn't know this. So I installed the package dev-perl/XML-Parser that worked. I'll remember this the next time it happens.