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From:	walt <w41ter@×××××.com>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	[gentoo-user] Re: How to avoid perl harbor (pun intended) [SOLVED]
Date:	Tue, 14 Jul 2015 00:24:48
Message-Id:	`20150713172427.7d1c3065@a6`
In Reply to:	[gentoo-user] How to avoid perl harbor (pun intended) by walt

1	On Mon, 13 Jul 2015 05:19:46 -0700
2	walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote:
3
4	> Today's update started as a disaster: perl wants to upgrade from
5	> 5.20.2 to 5.22.0, but all of my existing perl modules insist on having
6	> 5.20.2 so the perl update blocks and then emerge stopped with an error
7
8	The problem was caused by a single perl module:
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10	perl-core/Data-Dumper-2.154.0 (the only version available) clashed with
11	perl's new requirement for virtual/perl-Data-Dumper-2.158.0 (note the
12	different version numbers).
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14	Using my advanced WTF-do-I-have-to-lose training I eventually deleted
15	perl-core/Data-Dumper and then re-emerged virtual/perl-Data-Dumper.
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17	perl-cleaner is now happily doing its shtick :)