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From: "David M. Fellows" <fellows@×××.ca>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o, Francisco Ares <frares@×××××.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] missing dependencies
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 11:55:28
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In Reply to: [gentoo-user] missing dependencies by Francisco Ares
1 On Wed, 26 Feb 2014 08:12:35 -0300
2 Francisco Ares wrote -
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6 > Hi All,
7 >
8 > It has been for a while, now: every now and then, when updating a perl
9 > module, it fails to emerge. Checking the log, it is possible to see
10 > something like this, when I tied to update dev-perl/File-MimeInfo :
11 >
12 > ...
13 > Checking prerequisites...
14 > requires:
15 > ! File::BaseDir is not installed
16 > ! File::DesktopEntry is not installed
17 > ...
18 >
19 > Then I checked to see, and both dev-perl/File-BaseDir and
20 > dev-perl/File-DesktopEntry are really not installed and are not requested
21 > for the dev-perl/File-MimeInfo update.
22 >
23 > At first I thought it was a one and only case. But as time goes by, there
24 > has been perl packages that refuse to emerge at first, and then, checking
25 > the emerge log, finding missing modules and manually emerging them,
26 > everything goes as it should.
27 >
28 > Does anyone have a clue on where did I miss them?
29
30 You need to run perl-cleaner to rebuild perl modules after a perl update.
31
32 emerge perl-cleaner if neecessary
33 perl-cleaner --all -p
34 to check
35 and perl-cleaner --all
36 do do the work.
37
38 Dave F

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Re: [gentoo-user] missing dependencies Francisco Ares <frares@×××××.com>