A recent world update followed by depclean resulted in a request to remove nearly 30 dev-perl packages (plus an old boost).
I don't use perl, but wonder what triggered this change. I have not changed any use flags. My inclination is to let depclean have its way, but wanted to check here first in case this looks suspicious to anyone. thanks, allan >>> These are the packages that would be unmerged: app-text/libspectre selected: 0.2.6 protected: none omitted: none dev-perl/Module-Install selected: 1.60.0 protected: none omitted: none dev-libs/boost selected: 1.48.0-r2 protected: none omitted: 1.49.0-r1 dev-perl/PAR-Dist selected: 0.480.0 protected: none omitted: none dev-perl/File-Remove selected: 1.520.0 protected: none omitted: none dev-perl/YAML-Tiny selected: 1.510.0 protected: none omitted: none dev-perl/JSON selected: 2.530.0 protected: none omitted: none dev-perl/Module-ScanDeps selected: 1.80.0 protected: none omitted: none dev-util/boost-build selected: 1.48.0-r1 protected: none omitted: 1.49.0 dev-perl/LWP-Protocol-https selected: 6.30.0 protected: none omitted: none dev-perl/libwww-perl selected: 6.40.0 protected: none omitted: none dev-perl/WWW-RobotRules selected: 6.10.0 protected: none omitted: none dev-perl/HTTP-Cookies selected: 6.0.1 protected: none omitted: none dev-perl/HTTP-Daemon selected: 6.10.0 protected: none omitted: none dev-perl/HTTP-Negotiate selected: 6.0.1 protected: none omitted: none dev-perl/File-Listing selected: 6.40.0 protected: none omitted: none dev-perl/Net-HTTP selected: 6.30.0 protected: none omitted: none dev-perl/HTTP-Message selected: 6.30.0 protected: none omitted: none virtual/perl-Encode selected: 2.440.0 protected: none omitted: none dev-perl/Encode-Locale selected: 1.30.0 protected: none omitted: none dev-perl/HTML-Parser selected: 3.690.0 protected: none omitted: none dev-perl/LWP-MediaTypes selected: 6.20.0 protected: none omitted: none dev-perl/URI selected: 1.600.0 protected: none omitted: none dev-perl/HTTP-Date selected: 6.20.0 protected: none omitted: none dev-perl/HTML-Tagset selected: 3.200.0 protected: none omitted: none perl-core/Encode selected: 2.440.0 protected: none omitted: none virtual/perl-Time-Local selected: 1.200.0-r1 protected: none omitted: none perl-core/Time-Local selected: 1.200.0 protected: none omitted: none