On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 02:38:06PM -0600, Jacob Fugal wrote:
>    # emerge -u world
>    Calculating world dependencies ...done!
> 
>    !!! Error: the <dev-perl/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.05-r6 package conflicts with 
> another package.
>    !!!        both can't be installed on the same system together.
>    !!!        Please use 'emerge --pretend' to determine blockers.
> 
> When I use -p, I get (among a whole slew of packages to be updated):
> 
>    [blocks B     ] <dev-perl/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.05-r6 (from pkg 
> dev-lang/perl-5.8.0-r12)
>    [blocks B     ] <dev-perl/Test-Simple-0.47-r1 (from pkg dev-lang/perl-5.8.0-r12)

Gentoo decided to change how they handle perl[1].  You'll need to
unmerge the perl packages that show as blocks and then do the emerge -u
world again.

[1] http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20030728-newsletter.xml
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