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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] cruft after perl-cleaner --all
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 23:31:56
Message-Id: 4CC3701E.4010108@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] cruft after perl-cleaner --all by Allan Gottlieb
1 Allan Gottlieb wrote:
2 > Daniel Pielmeier<billie@g.o> writes:
3 >
4 >
5 >> Allan Gottlieb schrieb am 23.10.2010 18:13:
6 >>
7 >>> perl-cleaner could not deal with
8 >>>
9 >>> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/XML/SAX/ParserDetails.ini
10 >>> /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i686-linux/Encode/ConfigLocal.pm
11 >>>
12 >>> I ran
13 >>> equery belongs
14 >>> and neither turned up.
15 >>>
16 >>>
17 >> It is cruft! Some leftovers from perl-5.8.8. There should be new ones in
18 >> the corresponding locations for perl-5.12.2 after upgrading and running
19 >> perl-cleaner.
20 >>
21 > Indeed there were.
22 >
23 >
24 >> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.12.2/XML/SAX/ParserDetails.ini
25 >> /usr/lib/perl5/5.12.2/i686-linux/Encode/ConfigLocal.pm
26 >>
27 >> After the switch to a new perl version and successful run of
28 >> perl-cleaner it should be safe to remove everything below /usr/lib/perl5
29 >> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl for older perl
30 >> installations, except stuff belonging to packages which were not
31 >> installed by the package manager or have been altered manually.
32 >>
33 > Thank you
34 > allan
35 >
36 >
37
38 Yep. I had one file left over that it printed out to. I ran equery b
39 file/name to see if it belonged to anything and it didn't. A little rm
40 did the trick.
41
42 Is there a way to find "cruft"? Some script or something? My install
43 is pretty old and I would guess there are a few left over files here and
44 there.
45
46 Dale
47
48 :-) :-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] cruft after perl-cleaner --all Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>