From: Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: depclean asking to remove *many* perl
Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 16:10:41 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yu962c2a37i.fsf@nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jojcqk$dgp$1@dough.gmane.org> (Nikos Chantziaras's message of "Fri, 11 May 2012 18:55:37 +0300")
On Fri, May 11 2012, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> 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.
Thank you.
That was my conclusion as well. I am letting depclean go as I type
this.
allan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-11 20:13 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 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2012-05-11 20:10 ` Allan Gottlieb [this message]
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