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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] dev-lang/perl:0 - problem
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2015 08:12:17
Message-Id: 55336350.5040508@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] dev-lang/perl:0 - problem by Joseph
1 On 19/04/2015 01:38, Joseph wrote:
2 > I've not updated to two months and now I'm getting dependency problem
3 > with "dev-lang/perl"
4 >
5 > (dev-lang/perl-5.20.2:0/5.20::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
6 > pulled in by
7 > =dev-lang/perl-5.20.2* required by
8 > (virtual/perl-File-Spec-3.480.100-r1:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for
9 > merge)
10 > ^
11 > ^^^^^^^
12 > (and 38 more with the same problem)
13 >
14 > (dev-lang/perl-5.18.2-r2:0/5.18::gentoo, installed) pulled in by
15 > dev-lang/perl:0/5.18=[-build(-)] required by
16 > (dev-perl/Crypt-PasswdMD5-1.400.0:0/0::gentoo, installed)
17 >
18 > ^^^^^^^^
19 > (and 94 more with the same problem)
20
21 If "perl-cleaner --all" doesn't fix it, then do it the long way round:
22
23 unmerge Crypt-PasswdMD5, emerge perl-5.20.2 then emerge Crypt-PasswdMD5
24 back. There may be more perl modules causing the same issue before you
25 can successfully emerge perl-5.20.2. List them and do the above for all.
26
27
28 >
29 > How to solve it? I don't want to mess with perl and ended up with
30 > "emerge" not working.
31
32 emerge does not use prel. It uses python.
33 You are safe.
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37 --
38 Alan McKinnon
39 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com