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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] perl 5.12 downgrade ??
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 14:05:41
Message-Id: AANLkTinGvH5RHgiVZ6B3SCtf-yHtJKfNLuFZVppn0RT3@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] perl 5.12 downgrade ?? by Joseph
1 On 28 October 2010 13:58, Joseph <syscon780@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > After upgrading to Perl 5.12 and all cleanup "perl-cleaner --all"
3 > When I run "emerge --depclean" it asked me to removed the following packages
4 > listed below.
5 > However, when I check all of them are needed by some other packages. Do I
6 > need them? (I retained them all)
7 >
8 > virtual/perl-Package-Constants
9 > virtual/perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib
10 > virtual/perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2
11 > dev-java/antlr perl-core/MIME-Base64
12 > perl-core/Test-Simple
13 > perl-core/Archive-Tar
14 > perl-core/Test-Harness
15 > perl-core/IO-Compress
16 > perl-core/IO-Zlib
17 > perl-core/Digest-MD5
18 > perl-core/CGI
19 > perl-core/Digest-SHA perl-core/Compress-Raw-Bzip2 perl-core/Sys-Syslog
20 > perl-core/digest-base perl-core/Compress-Raw-Zlib
21 > perl-core/version
22 > perl-core/DB_File
23 > perl-core/Package-Constants
24 > dev-java/gjdoc
25 > perl-core/libnet
26 >
27 > The reason I'm asking is that I'm getting some strange errors when using
28 > 'sql-ledger' eg.
29 > Using a hash as a reference is deprecated at SL/IS.pm line 582.
30 >
31 > I think it might be related to recent perl upgrade.
32 > Is it possible / safe to downgrade to previous "perl-5.8.8-r8" ?
33 > or do I just delete the above perl module.
34
35 I am getting the same here. I retained everything until things settle
36 a bit and newer versions get unmasked.
37
38 --
39 Regards,
40 Mick

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