On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 5:24 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 14/02/2015 13:13, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > > 'perl-cleaner --all' generated the following output. > > > > * Finding left over modules and header > > > > * The following files remain. These were either installed by hand > > * or edited. This script cannot deal with them. > > > > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.16.3/XML/SAX/ParserDetails.ini > > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.18.2/XML/SAX/ParserDetails.ini > > /usr/lib/perl5/5.12.4/i686-linux/Encode/ConfigLocal.pm > > > > What's the recommended way to go about this? > > > That happens when something other than portage created of changed the > listed files. > > Installing stuff from CPAN will do it, I get it a lot with -emul > packages. Anything that even touches the files will trigger that warning. > > To fully deal with them: > > 1. Check you have neither perl-5.16.3 or perl-5.18.2 installed. If so, > those 3 artifacts will never be used by anything > 2. Check that you have xml-sax and encode installed for your latest > installed perl. > 3. Delete the stuff perl-cleaner is moaning about > > > > > #2 is the important one > > > -- > Alan McKinnon > alan.mckin...@gmail.com > > > Understood. Thanks. equery -q l dev-lang/perl dev-lang/perl-5.20.1-r4 equery -q l '*XML-SAX*' dev-perl/XML-SAX-0.990.0-r1 dev-perl/XML-SAX-Base-1.80.0-r1 equery -q l '*[Ee]ncode*' dev-perl/Encode-Locale-1.30.0-r1 virtual/perl-Encode-2.600.0 I take it it is safe to remove the perl files left over.