[gentoo-user] Surviving perl-5.24.0

[walt]

I spent most of today updating from perl-5.22 to perl-5.24 because so
many packages failed to install.  I ran perl-cleaner about a hundred
times and tried emerge -ac in between, which always failed because it
falsely accused me of not doing emerge -auND.

Finally I got through the perl update and noticed a message saying
'emerge -auND --with-bdeps=y is the ultimate way to update...' so I
added the '--with-bdeps=y' and another twenty perl-related packages got
rebuilt after I thought I was done.

Now I'm really done, I think, but I'm afraid to reboot this machine.