Apparently, though unproven, at 21:21 on Thursday 09 June 2011, Grant did
opine thusly:
> A while back I installed a bundle of perl modules outside of portage.
> I never got around to using a cruft script to get rid of them and now
> that I've moved from perl-5.12.2 to 5.12.3, I'm thinking it might be
> as easy as:
>
> # rm /usr/lib64/perl5/*_perl/5.12.2
>
> Is that safe? Should it eliminate all traces of the stale perl modules?
Yes, that's the way it is done. Also look in /usr/share/{doc|man} and the same
dir structures in /usr/local/
If you run "equery files" on a random bunch of perl ebuilds, you'll see that
most only put files in those perl libs and /usr/share/doc/, so you've probably
got most stuff covered
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