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From: Joseph <syscon780@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] perl 5.12 downgrade ??
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 14:59:57
Message-Id: 20101028145851.GZ17225@syscon4.inet
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] perl 5.12 downgrade ?? by Mick
1 On 10/28/10 15:05, Mick wrote:
2 >On 28 October 2010 13:58, Joseph <syscon780@×××××.com> wrote:
3 >> After upgrading to Perl 5.12 and all cleanup "perl-cleaner --all"
4 >> When I run "emerge --depclean" it asked me to removed the following packages
5 >> listed below.
6 >> However, when I check all of them are needed by some other packages. Do I
7 >> need them? (I retained them all)
8 >>
9 >> virtual/perl-Package-Constants
10 >> virtual/perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib
11 >> virtual/perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2
12 >> dev-java/antlr perl-core/MIME-Base64
13 >> perl-core/Test-Simple
14 >> perl-core/Archive-Tar
15 >> perl-core/Test-Harness
16 >> perl-core/IO-Compress
17 >> perl-core/IO-Zlib
18 >> perl-core/Digest-MD5
19 >> perl-core/CGI
20 >> perl-core/Digest-SHA perl-core/Compress-Raw-Bzip2 perl-core/Sys-Syslog
21 >> perl-core/digest-base perl-core/Compress-Raw-Zlib
22 >> perl-core/version
23 >> perl-core/DB_File
24 >> perl-core/Package-Constants
25 >> dev-java/gjdoc
26 >> perl-core/libnet
27 >>
28 >> The reason I'm asking is that I'm getting some strange errors when using
29 >> 'sql-ledger' eg.
30 >> Using a hash as a reference is deprecated at SL/IS.pm line 582.
31 >>
32 >> I think it might be related to recent perl upgrade.
33 >> Is it possible / safe to downgrade to previous "perl-5.8.8-r8" ?
34 >> or do I just delete the above perl module.
35 >
36 >I am getting the same here. I retained everything until things settle
37 >a bit and newer versions get unmasked.
38 >
39 >--
40 >Regards,
41 >Mick
42
43 I've posted this message on Gentoo forum and user "krinn" suggested to file a bug as "depclean" not suppose to remove package that depend on
44 packages that are still in use.
45
46 --
47 Joseph

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