Re: [gentoo-user] I don't understand Perl. What do I do after an update?

[Willie Wong]

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 08:04:54PM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> Portage recently updated Perl from 5.10.1 to 5.12.1 (and later -r1).
> However, a crapload of files still remain in
> /usr/lib/perl5/{site_perl,vendor_perl}/5.10.1.  I found out the hard way
> after trying to emerge openoffice (and everyone knows how painful that
> one is):
>
> What is the user required to do after updating Perl?  elogv doesn't tell
> me anything about upgrading.

There's this neat little script called perl-cleaner

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/perl/perl-cleaner.xml

W

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