On 2013-03-27, Alan Mackenzie <a...@muc.de> wrote: > Has anybody else seen this? I did a sync, then emerge -puND world and > got a list of ~100 packages to merge. About a third of them seem to be > new perl stuff, 13 packages with gnome, and a lot of this and that.
When that happened to me, it was the result of inadvertatly switching from a plain profile to a "desktop". Switching back to a plain profile eliminated a lot of "bloat" packages for which I had no need. I think the perl stuff is probably legit. IIRC, they recently split up some packages and/or added some virtual packages for things that had more than one implementation. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Sign my PETITION. at gmail.com