On 30/07/2014 23:12, Mick wrote:
On Wednesday 30 Jul 2014 23:02:38 Kerin Millar wrote:
On 30/07/2014 22:58, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On 30/07/2014 23:47, Mick wrote:
Having updated some perl packages, I ran perl-cleaner which failed with
some blockers, I ran:
emerge --deselect --ask $(qlist -IC 'perl-core/*')
emerge -uD1a $(qlist -IC 'virtual/perl-*')
as advised by perl-cleaner, before I ran perl-cleaner successfully.
Following all this depclean give me a loooong list of perl packages, but
I am
reluctant to hit yes, before I confirm that this correct:
It's very likely safe:
http://dilfridge.blogspot.com/2014/07/perl-in-gentoo-dev-langperl-virtual
s.html
I'm quite sure that whole list is now bundled with perl itself so
there's no need to have the modules as well.
Everything except for IO::Compress and Scalar::List::Utils. I concur;
nothing about this list appears surprising.
--Kerin
Thank you both!
I am on dev-lang/perl-5.18.2-r1
As Perl 5.16 is EOL, perhaps that's no bad thing. Incidentally, you can
check whether a module is part of the Perl core by using the corelist tool.
$ corelist Archive::Tar
Archive::Tar was first released with perl v5.9.3
--Kerin
