[gentoo-user] g-cpan confusion

2009-05-21 Thread Tim Jones
Hello! Just getting settled with Gentoo, happy so far. I was a little confused to learn of the existence of the g-cpan module, even at the presence of perl modules in Portage itself. g-cpan is supposed to be a Portage wrapper for plain cpan? If I use g-cpan to install a module, will it use the ebu

[gentoo-user] scrooged perl 5.10 dependencies

2009-08-31 Thread Tim Jones
Hello list: Okay, after latest portage sync, all these perl compression modules have gone awry, again. The problem reported by emerge -DNu world -pv is: emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "~dev-lang/perl-5.10.1". (dependency required by "virtual/perl-IO-Compress-2.020" [installed]) (dependenc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: scrooged perl 5.10 dependencies

2009-09-01 Thread Tim Jones
Ah, that was it. I left ~x86 on IO-Compress in my package.keywords... why I cannot remember, perhaps to fix an issue earlier. But I'm not in the habit of unmasking perl stuff. Thank you for your time. On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 1:49 AM, Torsten Veller wrote: > * Tim Jones : >> Also

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: revdep trouble

2009-09-03 Thread Tim Jones
Post #2 from Mr. McKinnon is the question. If, as it sounds like, you didn't let revdep-rebuild go ahead and reemerge those packages itself, but rather you reemerged them yourself, then I believe you will need to `revdep-rebuild -i` (see manpage) to see if it has any other complaints. And there's n