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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is perl broken?
Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2015 17:03:56
Message-Id: 8071935.GzYLofUip3@wstn
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Is perl broken? by "Andreas K. Huettel"
1 On Sunday 05 April 2015 18:29:05 Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
2
3 > Do you see anything that is actually broken?
4
5 Apart from perl-cleaner and portage? Emerge exiting silently after being
6 given a list of packages to emerge doesn't exactly seem like normal
7 behaviour to me. It was told "emerge -v1 ...[list of packages]" as in perl-
8 cleaner's usual behaviour. No ifs, no buts - just do it.
9
10 > Minor updates (5.x.y -> 5.x.y+1) do not need any rebuilds or
11 > reinstallations of modules.
12 >
13 > Not 100% sure what perl-cleaner does when you run it anyway. Maybe it
14 > reinstalls all, but it's not necessary.
15
16 I just ran it to see what it'd do. I got more than I'd bargained for.
17
18 > [Side note, your information on what perl-cleaner does is very vague, I
19 > can't distll anything useful out of it.]
20
21 The two virtuals were perl-File-Spec-3.480.100 and perl-Storable-2.490.100.
22 I hope you don't want me to list the hundreds of files it can't handle.
23
24 --
25 Rgds
26 Peter.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Is perl broken? "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o>