Hello,
recently a vulnerability has been found in Perl, so I tried to
update Perl with emerge. This went fine on one system, on another, which
is a bit older, I get the following output:

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[blocks B ] <dev-perl/Test-Simple-0.47-r1 (from pkg dev-lang/perl-5.8.5-r2)
[blocks B ] <dev-perl/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.17 (from pkg dev-lang/perl-5.8.5-r2)
[ebuild U ] sys-devel/libperl-5.8.5 [5.8.0] +berkdb -debug +gdbm -ithreads (-uclibc) 11,651 kB
[ebuild U ] sys-libs/gdbm-1.8.3-r1 [1.8.0-r5] +berkdb -debug 223 kB
[ebuild U ] dev-lang/perl-5.8.5-r2 [5.8.0-r9] +berkdb -debug -doc +gdbm -ithreads -perlsuid (-uclibc) 0 kB

Total size of downloads: 11,874 kB

I am confused now--how can I update Perl if it blocks itself?

Thanks in advance for any help,
DrTebi