Try perl-cleaner, read the man page to see all the options.
On Mon, Jun 20, 2016, 12:28 lee <l...@yagibdah.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> how do you do an update despite perl blocking it?
>
>
> emerge -a --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps=y --keep-going @world
> [...]
> dev-lang/perl:0
>
> (dev-lang/perl-5.22.2:0/5.22::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled
> in by
> =dev-lang/perl-5.22* required by
> (virtual/perl-IO-Zlib-1.100.0-r6:0/0::gentoo, installed)
> ^ ^^^^^
> (and 8 more with the same problem)
>
> (dev-lang/perl-5.20.2:0/5.20::gentoo, installed) pulled in by
> dev-lang/perl:0/5.20=[-build(-)] required by
> (dev-perl/Encode-Locale-1.30.0-r1:0/0::gentoo, installed)
> ^^^^^^^^
> =dev-lang/perl-5.20* required by
> (virtual/perl-Pod-Parser-1.620.0:0/0::gentoo, installed)
> ^ ^^^^^
> (and 56 more with the same problems)
> [...]
>
>
> It seems that some pppl found perl 5.24 somewhere, which doesn't seem to
> be available:
>
>
> eix dev-lang/perl
> [I] dev-lang/perl
> Available versions: 5.20.2(0/5.20) ~5.20.2-r1(0/5.20)
> ~5.22.0(0/5.22) ~5.22.1(0/5.22) {berkdb debug doc gdbm ithreads}
> Installed versions: 5.20.2(01:11:43 AM 04/06/2015)(berkdb gdbm
> -debug -doc -ithreads)
> Homepage: http://www.perl.org/
> Description: Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Report
> Language
>
>
> An update is overdue. What should I do?
>
>
