Re: [gentoo-user] missing dependencies

[Francisco Ares]

2014-02-26 8:54 GMT-03:00 David M. Fellows <fellows@×××.ca>:

> On Wed, 26 Feb 2014 08:12:35 -0300
> Francisco Ares wrote -
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> > Hi All,
> >
> > It has been for a while, now: every now and then, when updating a perl
> > module, it fails to emerge.  Checking the log, it is possible to see
> > something like this, when I tied to update dev-perl/File-MimeInfo :
> >
> > ...
> > Checking prerequisites...
> >   requires:
> >     !  File::BaseDir is not installed
> >     !  File::DesktopEntry is not installed
> > ...
> >
> > Then I checked to see, and both dev-perl/File-BaseDir and
> > dev-perl/File-DesktopEntry are really not installed and are not requested
> > for the dev-perl/File-MimeInfo update.
> >
> > At first I thought it was a one and only case.  But as time goes by,
> there
> > has been perl packages that refuse to emerge at first, and then, checking
> > the emerge log, finding missing modules and manually emerging them,
> > everything goes as it should.
> >
> > Does anyone have a clue on where did I miss them?
>
> You need to run perl-cleaner to rebuild perl modules after a perl update.
>
> emerge perl-cleaner if neecessary
> perl-cleaner --all -p
> to check
> and perl-cleaner --all
> do do the work.
>
> Dave F
>


Thanks, Dave, gonna try.

Francisco