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From: Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Perl pitfall
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2015 00:31:35
Message-Id: 20150302003126.GE1071@ca.inter.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Perl pitfall by "Andreas K. Huettel"
1 150302 Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
2 > Am Montag, 2. März 2015, 00:01:42 schrieb Philip Webb:
3 >> root:511 ~> emerge -pv perl-Digest-SHA
4 >> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
5 >> Calculating dependencies... done!
6 >> [ebuild U ] virtual/perl-Digest-SHA-5.880.0 [5.820.0] 0 KiB
7 >> [uninstall ] perl-core/Digest-SHA-5.820.0
8 >> [blocks b ] <perl-core/Digest-SHA-5.880.0
9 > Correct. Portage should uninstall perl-core/Digest-SHA-5.820.0.
10 > Small "b" indicates a soft resolvable block, so it should do that fine.
11 > Core Perl 5.20.1 already contains Digest::SHA 5.88 and is stable.
12 > No need to have the additional perl-core/Digest-SHA-5.880.0 installed.
13
14 Thanks : yes, I updated perl-Digest-SHA , which removed Digest-SHA ,
15 & this allowed me to emerge xkeyboard-config , which failed otherwise.
16
17 I suspect I'm not the only user who finds Portage msgs too laconic (smile).
18
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