So anyway, it was like, 14:59 CET Dec 08 2004, you know? Oh, and, yeah,
DrTebi was all like, "Dude,

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

It's not blocking itself, but the two ebuilds that are blocking the
upgrade have probably been included in the main perl build by now.

'emerge -Cva dev-perl/Test-Simple dev-perl/ExtUtils-MakeMaker && \
emerge -Duva perl'

Considering you still have perl 5.8.0 on it, I'd 'emerge -Duva world'
as soon as possible.

hth.

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