Re: [gentoo-user] depclean wants to remove all perl?

[Mick]

On Wednesday 30 Jul 2014 23:02:38 Kerin Millar wrote:
> On 30/07/2014 22:58, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On 30/07/2014 23:47, Mick wrote:
> >> Having updated some perl packages, I ran perl-cleaner which failed with
> >> some blockers, I ran:
> >>
> >> emerge --deselect --ask $(qlist -IC 'perl-core/*')
> >>
> >> emerge -uD1a $(qlist -IC 'virtual/perl-*')
> >>
> >> as advised by perl-cleaner, before I ran perl-cleaner successfully.
> >>
> >> Following all this depclean give me a loooong list of perl packages, but
> >> I am
> >
> >> reluctant to hit yes, before I confirm that this correct:
> > It's very likely safe:
> >
> > http://dilfridge.blogspot.com/2014/07/perl-in-gentoo-dev-langperl-virtual
> > s.html
> >
> > I'm quite sure that whole list is now bundled with perl itself so
> > there's no need to have the modules as well.
>
> Everything except for IO::Compress and Scalar::List::Utils. I concur;
> nothing about this list appears surprising.
>
> --Kerin

Thank you both!

I am on dev-lang/perl-5.18.2-r1

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Regards,
Mick