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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Stroppy perl-cleaner
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 14:09:17
Message-Id: 4846221.I1IMmMySmx@wstn
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Stroppy perl-cleaner by bitlord
1 On Saturday 14 February 2015 12:56:09 bitlord wrote:
2 > On Sat, 14 Feb 2015 11:33:49 +0000
3 >
4 > Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk> wrote:
5 > > Hello list,
6 > >
7 > > What is perl-cleaner objecting to here? It all seems pretty anodyne
8 > > to me:
9 > >
10 > > $ alias perl-cleaner
11 > > alias perl-cleaner='sudo perl-cleaner --all -- --ask --usepkg
12 > > --jobs=3 --keep-going' $ perl-cleaner
13 > >
14 > > ********************************************************************
15 > > ******* You are supplying additional command line options for the
16 > > package manager. This is NOT RECOMMENDED, not tested, and may lead
17 > > to incorrect, incomplete, confusing, and/or nonfunctional results.
18 > > You are on your own now.
19 > > ********************************************************************
20 > > *******
21 > You are using something which is not recommended by developers, that
22 > is '-- <extra portage parameters>', telling perl-cleaner to pass
23 > additional package manager parameters, not sure why is not
24 > recommended, but it warns you, also in 'perl-cleaner --help' or man
25 > page it says it is not recommended to do that.
26 >
27 > There is probably case when you can do something wrong, but also it
28 > can be safe too passing some parameters which don't affect build like
29 > '--ask'. One case which may be problematic (or not, just guessing) is
30 > --jobs=N, what will happen if one perl module depend on the other, and
31 > they are building at the same time?
32
33 Then portage will sort them out according to dependencies, as usual.
34
35 --
36 Rgds
37 Peter.