From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ObeZY-0000Re-Je for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:03:17 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4A9E8E0B8B for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:03:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4619EE0A69 for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:34:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0306565015 for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:34:06 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.932 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.932 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.333, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id YbjctvfWoorW for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:33:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B3D51B404E for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:33:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Obe77-0005TC-Kc for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:33:53 +0200 Received: from athedsl-371345.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.2.143]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:33:53 +0200 Received: from realnc by athedsl-371345.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:33:53 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: I don't understand Perl. What do I do after an update? Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:33:42 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <20100721173448.GA7386@math.princeton.edu> 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 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-371345.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100626 Thunderbird/3.1 In-Reply-To: <20100721173448.GA7386@math.princeton.edu> X-Archives-Salt: 0f483468-4043-459c-ab3b-62577543878b X-Archives-Hash: d8b6ae3ba7fb3aa2fde6802994db161c On 07/21/2010 08:34 PM, Willie Wong wrote: > On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 08:04:54PM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> Portage recently updated Perl from 5.10.1 to 5.12.1 (and later -r1). >> However, a crapload of files still remain in >> /usr/lib/perl5/{site_perl,vendor_perl}/5.10.1. I found out the hard way >> after trying to emerge openoffice (and everyone knows how painful that >> one is): >> >> What is the user required to do after updating Perl? elogv doesn't tell >> me anything about upgrading. > > There's this neat little script called perl-cleaner > > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/perl/perl-cleaner.xml Thanks. How do I call the script? I don't have any idea what perl modules or ph files are (or why I need them). What do I need to do?