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On 30/07/2014 23:12, Mick wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 30 Jul 2014 23:02:38 Kerin Millar wrote: |
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>> On 30/07/2014 22:58, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>>> On 30/07/2014 23:47, Mick wrote: |
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>>>> Having updated some perl packages, I ran perl-cleaner which failed with |
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>>>> some blockers, I ran: |
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>>>> |
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>>>> emerge --deselect --ask $(qlist -IC 'perl-core/*') |
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>>>> |
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>>>> emerge -uD1a $(qlist -IC 'virtual/perl-*') |
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>>>> as advised by perl-cleaner, before I ran perl-cleaner successfully. |
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>>>> |
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>>>> Following all this depclean give me a loooong list of perl packages, but |
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>>>> I am |
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>>> |
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>>>> reluctant to hit yes, before I confirm that this correct: |
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>>> It's very likely safe: |
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>>> |
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>>> http://dilfridge.blogspot.com/2014/07/perl-in-gentoo-dev-langperl-virtual |
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>>> s.html |
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>>> |
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>>> I'm quite sure that whole list is now bundled with perl itself so |
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>>> there's no need to have the modules as well. |
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>> Everything except for IO::Compress and Scalar::List::Utils. I concur; |
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>> nothing about this list appears surprising. |
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>> |
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>> --Kerin |
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> Thank you both! |
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> I am on dev-lang/perl-5.18.2-r1 |
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As Perl 5.16 is EOL, perhaps that's no bad thing. Incidentally, you can |
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check whether a module is part of the Perl core by using the corelist tool. |
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$ corelist Archive::Tar |
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Archive::Tar was first released with perl v5.9.3 |
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--Kerin |
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