Re: [gentoo-user] world upgrade a mess, need some advise

[Wol <antlists@youngman.org.uk>]

On 01/07/2024 20:27, John Covici wrote:
>> I seem to recall having to run that during that upgrade as well.  It
>> reinstalled a lot of packages but it worked.  It's worth trying for sure.
>>
> But don't you do that after the upgrade -- I can't even start the
> upgrade, so how would perl-cleaner help?

Trust me it does!

You have a bunch of old perl scripts, one (or more) of which are 
blocking the upgrade. perl-cleaner will upgrade them to the latest 
version compatible with your current perl, which then frees up the perl 
upgrade. Make sure you run perl-cleaner again afterwards, to ensure you 
have the absolute latest version of all these extra bits. In fact, you 
should really run perl-cleaner after every "emerge --update". Most 
people most of the time either forget or don't realise ...

Don't forget, if I've got it right, perl and CPAN predate linux, so if 
there's an argument about who needs to change, perl simply says "I was 
here first, you have to do it *my* way".

Cheers,
Wol