On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 19:53:10 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > I got around the problem by using : > > emerge --backtrack=30 -pvtD perl perl-Archive-Tar perl-Carp > perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib perl-CPAN-Meta-Requirements perl-Data-Dumper > perl-ExtUtils-CBuilder perl-ExtUtils-Install perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker > perl-ExtUtils-Manifest perl-ExtUtils-ParseXS perl-File-Spec > perl-Getopt-Long perl-IO perl-Locale-Maketext perl-Perl-OSType > perl-Scalar-List-Utils perl-Test-Harness perl-Text-ParseWords
I'm surprised you needed to jump through such hoops, I updated 2 stable systems to perl 5.22 last week and emerge @world took care of all blockers, although I did need to run perl-cleaner afterwards. > It wants to remerge Exiftool Imagemagick Cups-filters Graphite2 > & also some further Perl pkgs & it wants to downgrade (G)Vim. > That much wb ok, but it also wants to update Poppler & therefore LO > & I don't feel like doing the last at the moment ( 65 min last time). > > What you suggested is fairly standard & I've done it in the past, > but thanks for prompting me. Thanks to the other respondents too. > > Perl can stay where it is till LO 5.2 arrives in Portage : > in fact, isn't it a bit slow appearing ? 5.2.1.2 has been in testing for a couple of days, but it appears that 5.1.4.2 is the only ebuild in stable, so that may be the reason for your downgrade. -- Neil Bothwick You know it's cold when you spot a lawyer with his hands in his own pockets.
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