Hi,<br><br>I had dev-perl/Filesys-DiskSpace-0.05 installed. So I removed it and tried again and that seemed to fix it - seems like it was causing a conflict. Its now working its way through the backlog ;-) <br><br>For the record the perl version is this:
<br><br>quarks2 ~ # perl -v<br>This is perl, v5.8.8 built for i686-linux<br><br>The equery list gives these:<br><br>quarks2 ~ # equery list | grep perl<br>app-admin/perl-cleaner-1.04.3<br>dev-lang/perl-5.8.8-r2<br>dev-perl/Archive-
Tar-1.28<br>dev-perl/Archive-Zip-1.16<br>dev-perl/Bit-Vector-6.4
<br>dev-perl/Carp-Clan-5.3<br>dev-perl/Class-MethodMaker-2.08<br>dev-perl/Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.001<br>dev-perl/Compress-Zlib-2.001<br>dev-perl/Convert-BinHex-1.119<br>dev-perl/Convert-TNEF-0.17-r2<br>dev-perl/Crypt-SSLeay-0.51-r1
<br>dev-perl/DBD-SQLite-1.11<br>dev-perl/DBD-mysql-2.9007<br>dev-perl/DBI-1.50<br>dev-perl/Date-Calc-5.4<br>dev-perl/Digest-HMAC-1.01-r1<br>dev-perl/Digest-SHA1-2.11<br>dev-perl/ExtUtils-CBuilder-0.15<br>dev-perl/HTML-Parser-3.48
<br>dev-perl/HTML-Tagset-3.10<br>dev-perl/HTML-Tree-3.19.01<br>dev-perl/IO-Compress-Base-2.001<br>dev-perl/IO-Compress-Zlib-2.001<br>dev-perl/IO-Socket-INET6-2.51<br>dev-perl/IO-Socket-SSL-0.97<br>dev-perl/IO-String-1.08
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dev-perl/IO-Zlib-1.04<br>dev-perl/IO-stringy-2.110<br>dev-perl/Locale-gettext-1.05<br>dev-perl/Log-Agent-0.307<br>dev-perl/MIME-tools-5.417<br>dev-perl/MailTools-1.67<br>dev-perl/Net-CIDR-0.11<br>dev-perl/Net-DNS-0.53-r1
<br>
dev-perl/Net-Daemon-0.38<br>dev-perl/Net-IP-1.24<br>dev-perl/Net-SSLeay-1.25<br>dev-perl/PlRPC-0.2018<br>dev-perl/Shell-EnvImporter-1.04<br>dev-perl/Socket6-0.17<br>dev-perl/Sys-Hostname-Long-1.2<br>dev-perl/Tie-IxHash-1.21-r1
<br>dev-perl/TimeDate-1.16<br>dev-perl/URI-1.35<br>dev-perl/XML-NamespaceSupport-1.09<br>dev-perl/XML-Parser-2.34<br>dev-perl/XML-SAX-0.14-r1<br>dev-perl/XML-Simple-2.14<br>dev-perl/extutils-parsexs-2.15<br>dev-perl/libwww-
perl-5.803-r1<br>dev-perl/module-build-0.28<br>dev-perl/yaml-0.39<br>perl-core/DB_File-1.814<br>perl-core/Digest-MD5-2.33<br>perl-core/File-Spec-3.12<br>perl-core/File-Temp-0.16<br>perl-core/Getopt-Long-2.34<br>perl-core/MIME-
Base64-3.05<br>perl-core/PodParser-1.32<br>perl-core/Storable-2.15<br>perl-core/Sys-Syslog-0.18<br>perl-core/Test-Harness-2.56<br>perl-core/Test-Simple-0.64<br>perl-core/digest-base-1.13<br>perl-core/libnet-1.19<br>sys-devel/libperl-
5.8.8-r1<br>virtual/perl-DB_File-1.814<br>virtual/perl-Digest-MD5-2.36<br>virtual/perl-File-Spec-3.12<br>virtual/perl-File-Temp-0.16<br>virtual/perl-Getopt-Long-2.35<br>virtual/perl-MIME-Base64-3.07<br>virtual/perl-PodParser-1.34
<br>virtual/perl-Scalar-List-Utils-1.18<br>virtual/perl-Storable-2.15<br>virtual/perl-Sys-Syslog-0.18<br>virtual/perl-Test-Harness-2.56<br>virtual/perl-Test-Simple-0.64<br>virtual/perl-Time-HiRes-1.86<br>virtual/perl-digest-base-1.13
<br>virtual/perl-libnet-1.19<br><br><br>Many Thanks for the help,<br>Chris<br>