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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] perl-cleaner lerfovers
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 16:05:55
Message-Id: 54DF71FB.2040009@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] perl-cleaner lerfovers by Alexander Kapshuk
1 On 14/02/2015 17:42, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
2 > On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 5:24 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com
3 > <mailto:alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>> wrote:
4 >
5 > On 14/02/2015 13:13, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
6 > > 'perl-cleaner --all' generated the following output.
7 > >
8 > > * Finding left over modules and header
9 > >
10 > > * The following files remain. These were either installed by hand
11 > > * or edited. This script cannot deal with them.
12 > >
13 > > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.16.3/XML/SAX/ParserDetails.ini
14 > > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.18.2/XML/SAX/ParserDetails.ini
15 > > /usr/lib/perl5/5.12.4/i686-linux/Encode/ConfigLocal.pm
16 > >
17 > > What's the recommended way to go about this?
18 >
19 >
20 > That happens when something other than portage created of changed the
21 > listed files.
22 >
23 > Installing stuff from CPAN will do it, I get it a lot with -emul
24 > packages. Anything that even touches the files will trigger that
25 > warning.
26 >
27 > To fully deal with them:
28 >
29 > 1. Check you have neither perl-5.16.3 or perl-5.18.2 installed. If so,
30 > those 3 artifacts will never be used by anything
31 > 2. Check that you have xml-sax and encode installed for your latest
32 > installed perl.
33 > 3. Delete the stuff perl-cleaner is moaning about
34 >
35 >
36 >
37 >
38 > #2 is the important one
39 >
40 >
41 > --
42 > Alan McKinnon
43 > alan.mckinnon@×××××.com <mailto:alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
44 >
45 >
46 >
47 > Understood. Thanks.
48 >
49 > equery -q l dev-lang/perl
50 > dev-lang/perl-5.20.1-r4
51 >
52 > equery -q l '*XML-SAX*'
53 > dev-perl/XML-SAX-0.990.0-r1
54 > dev-perl/XML-SAX-Base-1.80.0-r1
55 >
56 > equery -q l '*[Ee]ncode*'
57 > dev-perl/Encode-Locale-1.30.0-r1
58 > virtual/perl-Encode-2.600.0
59 >
60 > I take it it is safe to remove the perl files left over.
61 >
62
63
64 Yes
65
66
67
68 --
69 Alan McKinnon
70 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com

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