Re: [gentoo-user] perl-cleaner lerfovers

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

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On Saturday 14 Feb 2015 12:19:54 Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 2:12 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Saturday 14 Feb 2015 11:48:57 Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
> > > On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 1:37 PM, bitlord <bitlord0xff@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 14 Feb 2015 13:13:25 +0200
> > > > 
> > > > Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > 'perl-cleaner --all' generated the following output.
> > > > > 
> > > > >  * Finding left over modules and header
> > > > >  
> > > > >  * The following files remain. These were either installed by hand
> > > > >  * or edited. This script cannot deal with them.
> > > > > 
> > > > > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.16.3/XML/SAX/ParserDetails.ini
> > > > > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.18.2/XML/SAX/ParserDetails.ini
> > > > > /usr/lib/perl5/5.12.4/i686-linux/Encode/ConfigLocal.pm
> > > > > 
> > > > > What's the recommended way to go about this?
> > > > > 
> > > > > Thanks.
> > > > 
> > > > As I understand this, it is safe to remove and that is what I do when
> > > > they appear on my system, if you don't have perl 5.16.3, 5.18.2 or
> > > > 5.12.4 ..., and updated/rebuild all perl modules with perl-cleaner.
> > > > 
> > > > I also used 'qfile /path/to/file' (from portage-utils) to check if
> > > > they belong to any installed package. (which is probably not needed,
> > > > per-cleaner knows about this?)
> > > > 
> > > > Understood. Thanks.
> > > 
> > > I am running 'dev-lang/perl-5.20.1-r4', so I guess I'll just go ahead
> > > and remove the files left over. They don't seem to belong to any
> > > package I currently have installed. I verified that using qfile and
> > > 'equery  b'.
> > 
> > I think that you should check your /var/lib/portage/world to make sure
> > that you have not inadvertently added any perl packages in there.  Then
> > emerge -C
> > any found and after that run @preserved-rebuild to bring in anything
> > required.
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Mick
> 
> Thanks. Does this one count?
> 
> grep -i perl /var/lib/portage/world
> sys-devel/libperl

Yes, you shouldn't really have any libs in your world file.  Any required 
would be pulled in as dependencies.

-- 
Regards,
Mick

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