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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] dev-lang/perl:0 - problem
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2015 12:26:17
Message-Id: 20150419132557.67165fdf@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] dev-lang/perl:0 - problem by "Andreas K. Huettel"
1 On Sun, 19 Apr 2015 13:05:02 +0200, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
2
3 > If this does not help, another (slightly radical) try would be
4 > emerge -aC $(qlist -IC 'virtual/perl-*') $(qlist -IC 'perl-core/*')
5 > and afterwards
6 > emerge -uDNav world
7 > (which re-installs virtuals and perl-core packages if necessary)
8 >
9 > (This should not break anything since 1) virtuals dont contain any
10 > files, so temporarily removing them does not hurt your system, and 2)
11 > perl-core/* packages are updated versions of things that are already
12 > inside dev-lang/perl, so by removing stuff from perl-core you are just
13 > effectively downgrading these for the moment.)
14
15 To be a little safer, you could run
16
17 quickpkg $(qlist -IC 'virtual/perl-*') $(qlist -IC 'perl-core/*')
18
19 first, to make reverting easier if you need to.
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22 --
23 Neil Bothwick
24
25 I can't walk on water, but I can stagger on alcohol.