Re: [gentoo-user] Re: depclean asking to remove *many* perl

2012-05-11 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Fri, May 11 2012, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

> On 11/05/12 17:39, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
>> A recent world update followed by depclean resulted in a request to
>> remove nearly 30 dev-perl packages (plus an old boost).
>>
>> I don't use perl, but wonder what triggered this change.  I have not
>> changed any use flags.
>>
>> My inclination is to let depclean have its way, but wanted to check here
>> first in case this looks suspicious to anyone.
>
> Something dropped the perl dependency.  Same results here.  I let it
> remove it and there were no problems.

Thank you.

That was my conclusion as well.  I am letting depclean go as I type
this.

allan



[gentoo-user] Re: depclean asking to remove *many* perl

2012-05-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras

On 11/05/12 17:39, Allan Gottlieb wrote:

A recent world update followed by depclean resulted in a request to
remove nearly 30 dev-perl packages (plus an old boost).

I don't use perl, but wonder what triggered this change.  I have not
changed any use flags.

My inclination is to let depclean have its way, but wanted to check here
first in case this looks suspicious to anyone.


Something dropped the perl dependency.  Same results here.  I let it 
remove it and there were no problems.