Re: [gentoo-user] perl 5.12 downgrade ??

[Joseph <syscon780@gmail.com>]

On 10/28/10 15:05, Mick wrote:
>On 28 October 2010 13:58, Joseph <syscon780@gmail.com> wrote:
>> After upgrading to Perl 5.12 and all cleanup "perl-cleaner --all"
>> When I run "emerge --depclean" it asked me to removed the following packages
>> listed below.
>> However, when I check all of them are needed by some other packages. Do I
>> need them? (I retained them all)
>>
>> virtual/perl-Package-Constants
>> virtual/perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib
>> virtual/perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2
>> dev-java/antlr perl-core/MIME-Base64
>> perl-core/Test-Simple
>> perl-core/Archive-Tar
>> perl-core/Test-Harness
>> perl-core/IO-Compress
>> perl-core/IO-Zlib
>> perl-core/Digest-MD5
>> perl-core/CGI
>> perl-core/Digest-SHA perl-core/Compress-Raw-Bzip2 perl-core/Sys-Syslog
>> perl-core/digest-base perl-core/Compress-Raw-Zlib
>> perl-core/version
>> perl-core/DB_File
>> perl-core/Package-Constants
>> dev-java/gjdoc
>> perl-core/libnet
>>
>> The reason I'm asking is that I'm getting some strange errors when using
>> 'sql-ledger' eg.
>> Using a hash as a reference is deprecated at SL/IS.pm line 582.
>>
>> I think it might be related to recent perl upgrade.
>> Is it possible / safe to downgrade to previous "perl-5.8.8-r8" ?
>> or do I just delete the above perl module.
>
>I am getting the same here.  I retained everything until things settle
>a bit and newer versions get unmasked.
>
>--
>Regards,
>Mick

I think all these packages can be remove now, 
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343093

-- 
Joseph