Bug#693860: pm-uninstall doesn't.

jidanni at jidanni.org jidanni at jidanni.org
Wed Nov 21 03:03:33 UTC 2012


Package: pmuninstall
Version: 0.29-1
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/bin/pm-uninstall

$ cpanm WWW::Mechanize::Firefox
--> Working on WWW::Mechanize::Firefox
...

after installing many many packages, we finally see

Building and testing HTML-Selector-XPath-0.15 ... OK
Successfully installed HTML-Selector-XPath-0.15
! Bailing out the installation for WWW-Mechanize-Firefox-0.68. Retry with --prompt or --force.
23 distributions installed
$ pm-uninstall WWW::Mechanize::Firefox
--> Working on WWW::Mechanize::Firefox
! WWW::Mechanize::Firefox not found.
$ pm-uninstall -v WWW::Mechanize::Firefox
--> Working on WWW::Mechanize::Firefox
Finding WWW::Mechanize::Firefox in your @INC
Looking up WWW::Mechanize::Firefox on cpanmetadb
-> Fetching from http://cpanmetadb.plackperl.org/v1.0/package/WWW::Mechanize::Firefox
! WWW::Mechanize::Firefox not found.


1. it doesn't look at my filesystem, but instead somewhere other than
cpanm did.

2. my system is left with ever increasing amounts of cruft.



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