I got it down to:
error: failed dependencies:
perl >= 5.600 is needed by apache2-devel-2.0.40-0.20020710.1mdk
perl-base >= 5.601 is needed by foomatic-1.9-0.20020618mdk
perl-base >= 5.600-29mdk is needed by drakxtools-newt-1.1.8-3mdk
perl >= 5.600 is needed by gcc-colorgcc-3.1.1-0.7mdk
after uninstalling a lot of stuff I can get from CPAN later, such
as the various XML modules. It used to look like this:
perl-base >= 5.601 is needed by glade-perl-0.59-3mdk
perl-base >= 5.601 is needed by perl-XML-Node-0.11-1mdk
perl-base >= 5.601 is needed by perl-XML-XPath-1.12-1mdk
perl-base >= 5.601 is needed by perl-XML-Twig-3.04-1mdk
perl-base >= 5.601 is needed by perl-XML-Records-0.12-1mdk
perl-base >= 5.601 is needed by perl-CGI-XMLApplication-1.1.1-1mdk
perl-base >= 5.601 is needed by perl-IO-Socket-SSL-0.81-1mdk
perl-base >= 5.601 is needed by perl-XML-Stream-1.15-1mdk
perl-base >= 5.601 is needed by gimp-perl-1.2.3-11mdk
perl-base = 5.601 is needed by gaim-0.59-2mdk
perl-base >= 5.601 is needed by foomatic-1.9-0.20020618mdk
perl-base >= 5.600-29mdk is needed by drakxtools-newt-1.1.8-3mdk
perl >= 5.600 is needed by perl-XML-Dumper-0.4-4mdk
perl >= 5.600 is needed by perl-XML-QL-0.07-3mdk
perl >= 5.600 is needed by perl-XML-Grove-0.46alpha-2mdk
perl >= 5.600 is needed by glade-perl-0.59-3mdk
perl >= 5.600 is needed by perl-XML-EasyOBJ-1.0-3mdk
perl >= 5.600 is needed by perl-XML-XPathScript-0.03-2mdk
perl >= 5.600 is needed by perl-XML-Encoding-1.01-2mdk
perl >= 5.600 is needed by perl-XML-XPath-1.12-1mdk
perl >= 5.600 is needed by perl-XML-Twig-3.04-1mdk
perl >= 5.600 is needed by perl-XML-Records-0.12-1mdk
perl >= 5.600 is needed by perl-CGI-XMLApplication-1.1.1-1mdk
perl >= 5.600 is needed by perl-XML-Parser-EasyTree-0.01-3mdk
perl >= 5.600 is needed by perl-XML-DT-0.19-2mdk
perl >= 5.600 is needed by perl-XML-Stream-1.15-1mdk
perl >= 5.601 is needed by gimp-perl-1.2.3-11mdk
perl >= 5.600 is needed by gcc-colorgcc-3.1.1-0.7mdk
perl >= 5.600 is needed by apache2-devel-2.0.40-0.20020707.1mdk
Liam