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On 19/09/16 15:28, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 19:53:10 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: |
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>> I got around the problem by using : |
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>> emerge --backtrack=30 -pvtD perl perl-Archive-Tar perl-Carp |
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>> perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib perl-CPAN-Meta-Requirements perl-Data-Dumper |
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>> perl-ExtUtils-CBuilder perl-ExtUtils-Install perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker |
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>> perl-ExtUtils-Manifest perl-ExtUtils-ParseXS perl-File-Spec |
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>> perl-Getopt-Long perl-IO perl-Locale-Maketext perl-Perl-OSType |
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>> perl-Scalar-List-Utils perl-Test-Harness perl-Text-ParseWords |
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> I'm surprised you needed to jump through such hoops, I updated 2 stable |
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> systems to perl 5.22 last week and emerge @world took care of all |
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> blockers, although I did need to run perl-cleaner afterwards. |
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>> It wants to remerge Exiftool Imagemagick Cups-filters Graphite2 |
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>> & also some further Perl pkgs & it wants to downgrade (G)Vim. |
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>> That much wb ok, but it also wants to update Poppler & therefore LO |
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>> & I don't feel like doing the last at the moment ( 65 min last time). |
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>> What you suggested is fairly standard & I've done it in the past, |
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>> but thanks for prompting me. Thanks to the other respondents too. |
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>> Perl can stay where it is till LO 5.2 arrives in Portage : |
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>> in fact, isn't it a bit slow appearing ? |
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> 5.2.1.2 has been in testing for a couple of days, but it appears that |
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> 5.1.4.2 is the only ebuild in stable, so that may be the reason for your |
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> downgrade. |
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I had only one machine fail - perl itself had to be brute forced with |
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--nodeps, perl-cleaner fixed the rest after I fixed some g-cpan failures |
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(wrong case - been around for a long while) - but for that perl-cleaner |
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would have picked it all up. |
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BillK |
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