On 2016-05-20 19:33, walt wrote:
I spent most of today updating from perl-5.22 to perl-5.24 because so
many packages failed to install. I ran perl-cleaner about a hundred
times and tried emerge -ac in between, which always failed because it
falsely accused me of not doing emerge -auND.
Finally I got through the perl update and noticed a message saying
'emerge -auND --with-bdeps=y is the ultimate way to update...' so I
added the '--with-bdeps=y' and another twenty perl-related packages got
rebuilt after I thought I was done.
Now I'm really done, I think, but I'm afraid to reboot this machine.
What could possibly go wrong ;)? How important of a machine is this? I
usually only get worried when rebooting after a kernel upgrade on
headless machines, but that's just me.
If you have console access to the machine, I think it should be able to
at least boot without perl, so I'd say go for it.
Alec
