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Re: Howto upgrade perl without removing everything



On 2011-11-14 16:03 +0100, Richard wrote:

> Playing dangerously with Sid, and I've reached the limit of what it will upgrade to
> without some help.
> Nearly everything has a dependency on perl, the perl version has change, so how do just upgrade the
> perl base.

Just don't do it. 

> I can't see the equivalent of rpm --nodeps in apt-get, and clean up the mess afterwards.

Don't create a mess in the first place, and wait for perl's reverse
dependencies to be rebuilt.  This will be sorted out in the next few
days.

Sven


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