On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 20:05 -0400, John J. Foster wrote:
> Calculating world dependencies -
> !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=sys-devel/libperl-5.8.6" have been
> masked.
> !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your
> request:
> - sys-devel/libperl-5.8.6 (masked by: ~x86 keyword)
> 
> For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page
> or
> section 2.2 "Software Availability" in the Gentoo Handbook.
> !!!    (dependency required by "dev-lang/perl-5.8.6-r4" [ebuild])
> 
> Am i reading this right? A stable package has an unstable dependency !
> 
> Please let me know if you beleive this is an error in the perl ebuild.

Rerun emerge --sync and try again.  I believe you synced while it was in
the middle of being marked stable.

Regards,
Paul
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