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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



      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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