On 6/2/05, Richard Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi - I'm trying to upgrade portage. My existing version of perl comes up as
a block. When I tried to remove the package I received a warning about
damaging the system. Can anyone tell me if it's OK to proceed.
Output below.
Thanks a lot, Alan
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# emerge --pretend perl
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies ...done!
[blocks B ] <perl-core/File-Spec-0.87 (from pkg dev-lang/perl-5.8.6-r4)
[ebuild U ] sys-devel/libperl-5.8.6 [5.8.5-r1]
[ebuild U ] dev-lang/perl-5.8.6-r4 [5.8.5]
pisces alan # emerge -C perl
!!! Trying to unmerge package(s) in system profile. 'dev-lang/perl'
!!! This could be damaging to your system.
>>> Waiting 10 seconds before starting...
>>> (Control-C to abort)...
Press Ctrl-C to Stop in: 10 9 8 7 6
Exiting on signal 2
#
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