On Sun, Apr 16 2017, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 17/04/2017 01:07, allan gottlieb wrote: >> Am I correct in believing that when perl-cleaner --all, at the end of a >> run, asserts >> >> * It seems like perl-cleaner had to rebuild some packages. >> * >> * The following files remain. These were either installed by hand >> * or edited. >> * /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.22.2/XML/SAX/ParserDetails.ini : >> * known, can be deleted >> * /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.20.2/XML/SAX/ParserDetails.ini : >> * known, can be deleted >> >> the correct response is to trust it and delete the file? > > > In those specific cases, yes. > > ParserDetails.ini is one of those perl files that do get modified during > the normal operation of the perl code. > perl-cleaner is being smart and telling you the file is not the same as > when it was installed, so it leaves the deletion up to you. > > Your current perl is neither 5.20.2 nor 5.22.2, those .ini files will > now never be used and so they are safe to delete. > > Side note: you can't always just delete everything in that section of > perl-cleaner output. Often, the script can't tell what it is and the > module was not put there by portage, so you must decide what to d on a > case by case basis.
Thank you. allan
