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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: depclean asking to remove *many* perl
Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 18:55:37 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jojcqk$dgp$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yu9r4uq93yr.fsf@nyu.edu>

On 11/05/12 17:39, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
> A recent world update followed by depclean resulted in a request to
> remove nearly 30 dev-perl packages (plus an old boost).
>
> I don't use perl, but wonder what triggered this change.  I have not
> changed any use flags.
>
> My inclination is to let depclean have its way, but wanted to check here
> first in case this looks suspicious to anyone.

Something dropped the perl dependency.  Same results here.  I let it 
remove it and there were no problems.




  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-11 15:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-11 14:39 [gentoo-user] depclean asking to remove *many* perl Allan Gottlieb
2012-05-11 15:55 ` Nikos Chantziaras [this message]
2012-05-11 20:10   ` [gentoo-user] " Allan Gottlieb

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