Am Montag, 17. April 2017, 01:09:44 CEST schrieb Alan McKinnon: > On 17/04/2017 01:07, allan gottlieb wrote: > > Am I correct in believing that when perl-cleaner --all, at the end of a > > run, asserts > > > > * It seems like perl-cleaner had to rebuild some packages. > > * > > * The following files remain. These were either installed by hand > > * or edited. > > * /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.22.2/XML/SAX/ParserDetails.ini : > > * known, can be deleted > > * /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.20.2/XML/SAX/ParserDetails.ini : > > * known, can be deleted > > > > the correct response is to trust it and delete the file? > > In those specific cases, yes.
Yes. (OK, I'm biased, I wrote the whitelist. :) https://github.com/gentoo-perl/perl-cleaner/blob/master/perl-cleaner#L27 > > ParserDetails.ini is one of those perl files that do get modified during > the normal operation of the perl code. > perl-cleaner is being smart and telling you the file is not the same as > when it was installed, so it leaves the deletion up to you. Actually it is created during operation... otherwise it would have been removed automatically. > Your current perl is neither 5.20.2 nor 5.22.2, those .ini files will > now never be used and so they are safe to delete. Correct. Essentially, if you have Perl 5.24, everything in directories with *other* 5.xx (xx != 24) will be completely ignored. [This is NOT true for minor upgrades. Perl 5.24.1 will (in our Gentoo configuration) happily use modules in 5.24.0 directories.] > Side note: you can't always just delete everything in that section of > perl-cleaner output. Often, the script can't tell what it is and the > module was not put there by portage, so you must decide what to d on a > case by case basis. True, but as of the newest version perl-cleaner has a list of "know stuff that should be safe to remove". And an option --delete-leftovers for the brave. :) -- Andreas K. Hüttel dilfri...@gentoo.org Gentoo Linux developer (council, perl, libreoffice)
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