From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ObdhM-00019K-5v for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:07:17 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D04D8E0BBA for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:07:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sentinel.math.Princeton.EDU (sentinel.math.Princeton.EDU [128.112.16.31]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E3BCE0B1D for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:34:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from math.princeton.edu ([128.112.18.16]) by sentinel.math.Princeton.EDU with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ObdBx-0008Ob-43 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:34:49 -0400 Received: from math.Princeton.EDU (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by math.Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o6LHYn15007684 for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:34:49 -0400 Received: (from wwong@localhost) by math.Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id o6LHYmul007681 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:34:48 -0400 Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:34:48 -0400 From: Willie Wong To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I don't understand Perl. What do I do after an update? Message-ID: <20100721173448.GA7386@math.princeton.edu> References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-Archives-Salt: e0087c32-8678-4c42-b1b2-e2b27f68d5ad X-Archives-Hash: 21883339eec877876f08d93d3d8441df On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 08:04:54PM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Portage recently updated Perl from 5.10.1 to 5.12.1 (and later -r1). > However, a crapload of files still remain in > /usr/lib/perl5/{site_perl,vendor_perl}/5.10.1. I found out the hard way > after trying to emerge openoffice (and everyone knows how painful that > one is): > > What is the user required to do after updating Perl? elogv doesn't tell > me anything about upgrading. There's this neat little script called perl-cleaner http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/perl/perl-cleaner.xml W -- Willie W. Wong wwong@math.princeton.edu Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton