Re: [gentoo-user] depclean wants to remove all perl?

[Kerin Millar]

On 30/07/2014 22:58, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 30/07/2014 23:47, Mick wrote:
>> Having updated some perl packages, I ran perl-cleaner which failed with some
>> blockers, I ran:
>>
>> emerge --deselect --ask $(qlist -IC 'perl-core/*')
>>
>> emerge -uD1a $(qlist -IC 'virtual/perl-*')
>>
>> as advised by perl-cleaner, before I ran perl-cleaner successfully.
>>
>> Following all this depclean give me a loooong list of perl packages, but I am
>> reluctant to hit yes, before I confirm that this correct:
>
>
> It's very likely safe:
>
> http://dilfridge.blogspot.com/2014/07/perl-in-gentoo-dev-langperl-virtuals.html
>
> I'm quite sure that whole list is now bundled with perl itself so
> there's no need to have the modules as well.

Everything except for IO::Compress and Scalar::List::Utils. I concur; 
nothing about this list appears surprising.

--Kerin