Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Baffled by Perl dependancies

2009-12-05 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 12/4/2009 10:21 PM, Dale wrote: Thanks goodness for Konsole and being able to scroll up. Where I come from, we use | less :p Marcus

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Baffled by Perl dependancies

2009-12-05 Thread Dale
Marcus Wanner wrote: On 12/4/2009 10:21 PM, Dale wrote: Thanks goodness for Konsole and being able to scroll up. Where I come from, we use | less :p Marcus That works too and I do use it sometimes. It is a must when in a plain console tho. Of course some would argue for | more too.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Baffled by Perl dependancies

2009-12-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 08:12:01 -0600, Dale wrote: That works too and I do use it sometimes. It is a must when in a plain console tho. Of course some would argue for | more too. ;-) less is more, most is better :) -- Neil Bothwick Mac screen message: Like, dude, something went wrong.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Baffled by Perl dependancies

2009-12-05 Thread daid kahl
I'm not 100% sure but I think eix-test-obsolete will find things like this.  It will also scan the /etc/portage/package.* files and a few other things as well. Be forewarned, the output can be pretty . . . . large.  lol  It mostly depends on how out of date things are.  Mine is usually huge.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Baffled by Perl dependancies

2009-12-05 Thread daid kahl
On 12/4/2009 10:21 PM, Dale wrote: Thanks goodness for Konsole and being able to scroll up. Where I come from, we use | less :p Meh, just into /tmp and use anything you want to view it if you really want to be hardcore. Less is really crappy for emerges at console-login. It requires you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Baffled by Perl dependancies

2009-12-05 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 9:16 PM, daid kahl daid...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/4/2009 10:21 PM, Dale wrote: Thanks goodness for Konsole and being able to scroll up. Where I come from, we use | less :p Meh, just into /tmp and use anything you want to view it if you really want to be hardcore.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Baffled by Perl dependancies

2009-12-05 Thread Dale
daid kahl wrote: I'm not 100% sure but I think eix-test-obsolete will find things like this. It will also scan the /etc/portage/package.* files and a few other things as well. Be forewarned, the output can be pretty . . . . large. lol It mostly depends on how out of date things are. Mine is

[gentoo-user] Re: Baffled by Perl dependancies

2009-12-04 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-12-04, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: After syncing today, emerge now tells me that the 2.020 stable version of virtual/perl-IO-Compress that I've had installed since August requires the testing version of Perl (5.10.1) !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy

[gentoo-user] Re: Baffled by Perl dependancies

2009-12-04 Thread walt
On 12/04/2009 12:31 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: ... Things seemed to be OK after manually updating perl-IO-Compress and removing perl-IO-Compress-Zlib: emerge perl-IO-Compress emerge -C perl-IO-Compress-Zlib Maybe someday I'll understand Portage, but I doubt it -- it's been 5 years. I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Baffled by Perl dependancies

2009-12-04 Thread Dale
walt wrote: On 12/04/2009 12:31 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: ... Things seemed to be OK after manually updating perl-IO-Compress and removing perl-IO-Compress-Zlib: emerge perl-IO-Compress emerge -C perl-IO-Compress-Zlib Maybe someday I'll understand Portage, but I doubt it -- it's been 5