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From: Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: depclean asking to remove *many* perl
Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 20:13:26
Message-Id: yu962c2a37i.fsf@nyu.edu
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: depclean asking to remove *many* perl by Nikos Chantziaras
1 On Fri, May 11 2012, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
2
3 > On 11/05/12 17:39, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
4 >> A recent world update followed by depclean resulted in a request to
5 >> remove nearly 30 dev-perl packages (plus an old boost).
6 >>
7 >> I don't use perl, but wonder what triggered this change. I have not
8 >> changed any use flags.
9 >>
10 >> My inclination is to let depclean have its way, but wanted to check here
11 >> first in case this looks suspicious to anyone.
12 >
13 > Something dropped the perl dependency. Same results here. I let it
14 > remove it and there were no problems.
15
16 Thank you.
17
18 That was my conclusion as well. I am letting depclean go as I type
19 this.
20
21 allan