On Mon, 19 Sep 2016 13:01:39 -0400, Philip Webb wrote:

> > I'm surprised you needed to jump through such hoops.
> > I updated 2 stable systems to perl 5.22 last week
> > and emerge @world took care of all blockers,
> > although I did need to run perl-cleaner afterwards.  
> 
> I never run 'emerge world' without '-p' :
> it's the lazy way to manage a Gentoo system & asks for trouble.

What makes you think I didn't use -p? I have a cron job that runs emerge
-pXXX @world after syncing and mails me the output, and I always use -a
when running emerge in a shell.

The point is that, whether I used -p, -a or neither, portage handled it
all for me.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Half of being smart is knowing what you're dumb at.