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From: Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@×××××.com>
To: Gentoo mailing list <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] perl-cleaner lerfovers
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 15:42:21
Message-Id: CAJ1xhMWv48UHssu+Z+g-Acy0F9SdHGWkc0fJEDNo_8ORqUd_sg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] perl-cleaner lerfovers by Alan McKinnon
1 On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 5:24 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
2 wrote:
3
4 > On 14/02/2015 13:13, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
5 > > 'perl-cleaner --all' generated the following output.
6 > >
7 > > * Finding left over modules and header
8 > >
9 > > * The following files remain. These were either installed by hand
10 > > * or edited. This script cannot deal with them.
11 > >
12 > > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.16.3/XML/SAX/ParserDetails.ini
13 > > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.18.2/XML/SAX/ParserDetails.ini
14 > > /usr/lib/perl5/5.12.4/i686-linux/Encode/ConfigLocal.pm
15 > >
16 > > What's the recommended way to go about this?
17 >
18 >
19 > That happens when something other than portage created of changed the
20 > listed files.
21 >
22 > Installing stuff from CPAN will do it, I get it a lot with -emul
23 > packages. Anything that even touches the files will trigger that warning.
24 >
25 > To fully deal with them:
26 >
27 > 1. Check you have neither perl-5.16.3 or perl-5.18.2 installed. If so,
28 > those 3 artifacts will never be used by anything
29 > 2. Check that you have xml-sax and encode installed for your latest
30 > installed perl.
31 > 3. Delete the stuff perl-cleaner is moaning about
32 >
33 >
34 >
35 >
36 > #2 is the important one
37 >
38 >
39 > --
40 > Alan McKinnon
41 > alan.mckinnon@×××××.com
42 >
43 >
44 >
45 Understood. Thanks.
46
47 equery -q l dev-lang/perl
48 dev-lang/perl-5.20.1-r4
49
50 equery -q l '*XML-SAX*'
51 dev-perl/XML-SAX-0.990.0-r1
52 dev-perl/XML-SAX-Base-1.80.0-r1
53
54 equery -q l '*[Ee]ncode*'
55 dev-perl/Encode-Locale-1.30.0-r1
56 virtual/perl-Encode-2.600.0
57
58 I take it it is safe to remove the perl files left over.

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