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From: Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] unclear (to me) errors from portage
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 11:33:16
Message-Id: CAGfcS_=97BkJsDRebeRqeXdu-rB_Vw+BJddv8k9tJ3yBFbYkcA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] unclear (to me) errors from portage by "J. Roeleveld"
1 On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 2:23 AM, J. Roeleveld <joost@××××××××.org> wrote:
2 > I notice a few perl blockers.
3 > You could try the following:
4 >
5 > # emerge -vuD1 $(qlist -IC 'virtual/perl-*')
6 > # perl-cleaner --all -v -- -v
7 >
8 > And then retry to update world.
9 > I've been encountering some perl blockages myself, and this cleared it up for
10 > me.
11
12 On stable the most recent perl update seems very prone to blockers,
13 and I found that cleaning out the virtuals using the first command
14 given helped portage sort things out considerably.
15
16 If a package outputs an update notice like that, it is usually for a reason...
17
18 Rich

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