I've upgraded from perl-5.8.0-r12 to perl-5.8.2-r1 today during an emerge -u system. I then ran libperl_updater which I later recognized to be unncessary because I came from 5.8.0-r12. The problem is that it tried to recompile a lot of packages obviously not perl-related. I looked in /var/db/pkg and found out I didn't have a dev-perl directory. Maybe the missing directory could be the cause for the script trying to recompile lots of packages (kde among them!!). Here are the last lines of the log. The packages are reported as failed because i manually interrupted the merging: Merging failed on the following packages: app-sci/emboss-2.8.0 dev-util/ddd-3.3.7 app-office/abiword-2.0.2 net-analyzer/nmap-3.50-r1 sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.4.22-r7 sys-apps/pcmcia-cs-3.2.5-r1 kde-base/arts-1.2.0 kde-base/kdelibs-3.2.0 kde-base/kdebase-3.2.0 x11-misc/xloadimage-4.1-r1 app-crypt/gnupg-1.2.4 app-crypt/gpgme-0.3.14 app-crypt/cryptplug-0.3.15 kde-base/kdenetwork-3.2.0 kde-base/kdepim-3.2.0-r2 media-libs/taglib-1.0 media-libs/musicbrainz-2.0.1 kde-base/kdemultimedia-3.2.0 kde-base/kdeaddons-3.2.0 kde-base/kdegraphics-3.2.0 kde-base/kdeedu-3.2.0 kde-base/kdetoys-3.2.0 kde-base/kdeutils-3.2.0 kde-base/kdeaccessibility-3.2.0 kde-base/kdeadmin-3.2.0 kde-base/kdeartwork-3.2.0 kde-base/kdegames-3.2.0 kde-base/kde-3.2.0 app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.0_pre6 sys-apps/hotplug-20040105 dev-perl/5.6.1-builtin-fixup.diff dev-perl/5.6.1-op-test-fix.diff dev-perl/digest-perl-5.8.2-r1 dev-perl/digest-perl-5.8.3 dev-perl/libperl_rebuilder dev-perl/perl-5.8.0-RC2-special-h2ph-not-failing-on-machine_ansi_header.patch dev-perl/perl-5.8.2-perldoc-emptydirs.patch dev-perl/perl-5.8.2-picdl.patch dev-perl/perl-5.8.2-prelink-lpthread.patch dev-perl/perl-5.8.2-reorder-INC.patch dev-perl/perl-5.8.3-perldoc-emptydirs.patch dev-perl/perl-5.8.3-picdl.patch dev-perl/perl-5.8.3-prelink-lpthread.patch dev-perl/perl-5.8.3-reorder-INC.patch dev-perl/stat.t All packages cleaned successfully. Now I don't know if I had a dev-perl directory before running the script but I definitely do not have one after it finished. Maybe it cleaned the patch files and then removed the directory? Still I don't see why it wants to recompile all those packages. I'm not actually sure how to reproduce the problem becuase maybe it came from an error of mine after all(i didn't need to run the script). Still I think it can be considered a bug if It tries to recompile everything without any need to do it. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Actual Results: Tried to recompile everything Expected Results: Don't recompile anything if it was not necessary Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.4.22custom) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.22custom i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10 distcc 2.12.1 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.7.7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -mcpu=pentium4 -Os -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fexpensive-optimizations -frerun-cse-after-loop -frerun-loop-opt -falign-functions=4 -msse -msse2 -mmmx -mfpmath=sse" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -mcpu=pentium4 -Os -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fexpensive-optimizations -frerun-cse-after-loop -frerun-loop-opt -falign-functions=4 -msse -msse2 -mmmx -mfpmath=sse" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aalib aavm alsa apm arts avi berkdb bonobo cdr crypt cups directfb doc dvd dvdr encode esd foomaticdb gdbm ggi gif gpm gtk gtk2 imlib java jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png postgres python qt quicktime readline samba sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"
Not sure what happened to your dev-perl (the script does no direct rm's of your portage tree, honest). As for the list - yep, that's a legit list, at least from a quick glance. kde uses perl for building (cd portdir/kde-base; grep perl */*ebuild actually comes back with a decent sized list).
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