>> I'm trying to install a perl module with g-cpan and it wants to >> install perl-gcpan/Date-Manip-5.54 as a dependency of the perl module >> I want to install. I already have dev-perl/DateManip-5.54 installed >> so I'm getting a file collision error. Does anyone know how to fix >> this? >> >> * Detected file collision(s): >> * >> * /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Date/Manip.pm >> * /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Date/Manip.pod > > Are the files from both packages identical? If so, you can ignore the > collision (but if you unmerge one or the other, maybe they will > disappear and break the remaining package). If they are not identical, > then I guess you cannot have these two packages installed at the same > time without some manipulation (no pun intended).
Shouldn't g-cpan know that Date-Manip is already installed? It seems to be aware of dev-perl stuff. I can't ignore the collision error unless I inject the package into /etc/portage/profile/package.provided since it stops the emerge. - Grant
