On Saturday 14 February 2015 12:56:09 bitlord wrote: > On Sat, 14 Feb 2015 11:33:49 +0000 > > Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > What is perl-cleaner objecting to here? It all seems pretty anodyne > > to me: > > > > $ alias perl-cleaner > > alias perl-cleaner='sudo perl-cleaner --all -- --ask --usepkg > > --jobs=3 --keep-going' $ perl-cleaner > > > > ******************************************************************** > > ******* You are supplying additional command line options for the > > package manager. This is NOT RECOMMENDED, not tested, and may lead > > to incorrect, incomplete, confusing, and/or nonfunctional results. > > You are on your own now. > > ******************************************************************** > > ******* > You are using something which is not recommended by developers, that > is '-- <extra portage parameters>', telling perl-cleaner to pass > additional package manager parameters, not sure why is not > recommended, but it warns you, also in 'perl-cleaner --help' or man > page it says it is not recommended to do that. > > There is probably case when you can do something wrong, but also it > can be safe too passing some parameters which don't affect build like > '--ask'. One case which may be problematic (or not, just guessing) is > --jobs=N, what will happen if one perl module depend on the other, and > they are building at the same time?
Then portage will sort them out according to dependencies, as usual. -- Rgds Peter.
