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Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: depclean asking to remove *many* perl
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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.