Re: [gentoo-user] perl-cleaner lerfovers

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On 14/02/2015 17:42, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 5:24 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
> <mailto:alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On 14/02/2015 13:13, Alexander Kapshuk 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?
> 
> 
>     That happens when something other than portage created of changed the
>     listed files.
> 
>     Installing stuff from CPAN will do it, I get it a lot with -emul
>     packages. Anything that even touches the files will trigger that
>     warning.
> 
>     To fully deal with them:
> 
>     1. Check you have neither perl-5.16.3 or perl-5.18.2 installed. If so,
>     those 3 artifacts will never be used by anything
>     2. Check that you have xml-sax and encode installed for your latest
>     installed perl.
>     3. Delete the stuff perl-cleaner is moaning about
> 
> 
> 
> 
>     #2 is the important one
> 
> 
>     --
>     Alan McKinnon
>     alan.mckinnon@gmail.com <mailto:alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
> 
> 
> 
> Understood. Thanks.
> 
> equery -q l dev-lang/perl
> dev-lang/perl-5.20.1-r4
> 
> equery -q l '*XML-SAX*'
> dev-perl/XML-SAX-0.990.0-r1
> dev-perl/XML-SAX-Base-1.80.0-r1
> 
> equery -q l '*[Ee]ncode*'
> dev-perl/Encode-Locale-1.30.0-r1
> virtual/perl-Encode-2.600.0
> 
> I take it it is safe to remove the perl files left over.
> 


Yes



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Alan McKinnon
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