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From: Joseph <syscon780@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] perl 5.12 downgrade ??
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 12:59:35
Message-Id: 20101028125822.GY17225@syscon4.inet
1 After upgrading to Perl 5.12 and all cleanup "perl-cleaner --all"
2 When I run "emerge --depclean" it asked me to removed the following packages listed below.
3 However, when I check all of them are needed by some other packages. Do I need them? (I retained them all)
4
5 virtual/perl-Package-Constants
6 virtual/perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib
7 virtual/perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2
8 dev-java/antlr
9 perl-core/MIME-Base64
10 perl-core/Test-Simple
11 perl-core/Archive-Tar
12 perl-core/Test-Harness
13 perl-core/IO-Compress
14 perl-core/IO-Zlib
15 perl-core/Digest-MD5
16 perl-core/CGI
17 perl-core/Digest-SHA
18 perl-core/Compress-Raw-Bzip2
19 perl-core/Sys-Syslog
20 perl-core/digest-base
21 perl-core/Compress-Raw-Zlib
22 perl-core/version
23 perl-core/DB_File
24 perl-core/Package-Constants
25 dev-java/gjdoc
26 perl-core/libnet
27
28 The reason I'm asking is that I'm getting some strange errors when using '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 --
36 Joseph

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Re: [gentoo-user] perl 5.12 downgrade ?? Graham Murray <graham@×××××××××××.uk>
Re: [gentoo-user] perl 5.12 downgrade ?? Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] perl 5.12 downgrade ?? Joseph <syscon780@×××××.com>