From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EA019158083 for ; Sat, 7 Sep 2024 15:27:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2D5EAE29FA; Sat, 7 Sep 2024 15:27:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost01b.sbp.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost01b.sbp.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.1.3]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange ECDHE (prime256v1) server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E77C5E29F3 for ; Sat, 7 Sep 2024 15:27:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.69.80.10] (helo=cube.localnet) by smarthost01b.sbp.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLS1.3) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.95) (envelope-from ) id 1smxLa-00156x-Gu for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 07 Sep 2024 15:27:41 +0000 From: Peter Humphrey To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Perl-cleaner --reallall Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2024 16:27:41 +0100 Message-ID: <2339872.ElGaqSPkdT@cube> 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 X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" X-Originating-smarthost01b-IP: [82.69.80.10] Feedback-ID: 82.69.80.10 X-Archives-Salt: fa0821d9-e431-4985-a62c-7694071c40e6 X-Archives-Hash: 02bcf4ff5287db87cd749ffba4757370 Greetings, A recent thread here reminded me of this utility, and I've run it on four machines since the latest perl update. In three cases it all went swimmingly, but on the fourth it tried its damnedest to remerge dbus with USE=systemd, and so start converting the whole system to systemd. This system is almost identical to one of the others. I had to put sys-apps/systemd into package.mask, after which perl-cleaner ran OK, but emerge -c stumbled over nine packages wanting 'dev-lang/perl:0/5.38=', which was the previous version. Next I remerged those nine, after which emerge -c removed 98 packages! Most of those seemed to be useful only on a GUI system, which this one doesn't have (and those 98 shouldn't have been present anyway), so I let it go ahead. The long neglected (here) revdep-rebuild didn't want to rebuild anything. I really dislike mysteries. -- Regards, Peter.