Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up perl

2007-09-09 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, 8. September 2007 schrieb Kevin O'Gorman: On 9/8/07, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Samstag, 8. September 2007 schrieb Kevin O'Gorman: Unfortunately, while it tries to do a number of things, they all fail in the same way: a problem with Errno.pm. I guess using

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up perl

2007-09-09 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 9/9/07, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Samstag, 8. September 2007 schrieb Kevin O'Gorman: On 9/8/07, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Samstag, 8. September 2007 schrieb Kevin O'Gorman: Unfortunately, while it tries to do a number of things, they all fail in

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up perl

2007-09-09 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 9. September 2007 schrieb Kevin O'Gorman: Does anyone know how to run CPAN in a cron job, just enough to run the 'r' command? CPAN is not just an interactive program, but also a normal perl module which you can use in your on scripts. So you could write a perl script and let it

[gentoo-user] Cleaning up perl

2007-09-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I've found myself in a mess with perl (see other thread). In the process I discovered what appears to be a bunch of old versions of perl-related things. In /usr/lib/perl5, there are subdirectories over 4 years old. Here's the complete list 5.8.2 5.8.4 5.8.5 5.8.6 5.8.7 5.8.8 site_perl

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up perl

2007-09-08 Thread Mike Williams
On Saturday 08 September 2007 16:13:41 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Can I safely just delete them? Not really. But gentoo provides a tool to sort it. # perl-cleaner reallyall -- Mike Williams -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up perl

2007-09-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 9/8/07, Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 08 September 2007 16:13:41 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Can I safely just delete them? Not really. But gentoo provides a tool to sort it. # perl-cleaner reallyall -- Mike William Interesting. I did not know about this cleaner.

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up perl

2007-09-08 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, 8. September 2007 schrieb Kevin O'Gorman: Unfortunately, while it tries to do a number of things, they all fail in the same way: a problem with Errno.pm. I guess using perl to clean up perl is not all that robust in this case. I still prefer good old cpan over gentoo' g-cpan to

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up perl

2007-09-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 9/8/07, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Samstag, 8. September 2007 schrieb Kevin O'Gorman: Unfortunately, while it tries to do a number of things, they all fail in the same way: a problem with Errno.pm. I guess using perl to clean up perl is not all that robust in this case.