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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: How to avoid perl harbor (pun intended)
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 12:52:12
Message-Id: mo0c94$3hh$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] How to avoid perl harbor (pun intended) by walt
1 On 13/07/15 15:19, walt wrote:
2 > Today's update started as a disaster: perl wants to upgrade from
3 > 5.20.2 to 5.22.0, but all of my existing perl modules insist on having
4 > 5.20.2 so the perl update blocks and then emerge stopped with an error
5 > and left the whole mess for me to solve. (To me this appears to be a
6 > bug in the perl family of ebuilds.)
7
8 Same here.
9
10 I uninstalled perl and tried again. This always worked with other packages.
11
12 But here: nope. Portage wants to then install both versions at the same
13 time.
14
15 Not good.