Jason Castonguay wrote:

Hi listers.

I'm in the process of installing gentoo for the first time and am now in
the process of going from stage 2 to stage 3.  I am trying to do

emerge --emptytree system

It seems to be fine until it gets to installing openssl (14 of 186 apps
to be installed).  The process stops and says that perl 5 is required.
This is understandable, but I thought emerge was supposed to be "aware" of
this sort of thing and install apps in the correct order.  I did a

There is probably a circular dependancy here caused by USE flags.

You can try:

USE="minimal -*" emerge --deep --oneshot perl

You should then be able to run the emerge --emptytree system command again. It will start over from the beginning, but there is no way to avoid that right now...

-Richard

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