Bug#693860: pm-uninstall doesn't.

[Alessandro Ghedini]

On mer, nov 21, 2012 at 11:03:33 +0800, jidanni at jidanni.org wrote:
> $ 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.

I'm not sure if I understand this. You are trying to remove a distribution
(WWW::Mechanize::Firefox) which isn't installed, since its installation failed.

pm-uninstall *is* looking at your filesystem, but it doesn't find the files it
should remove since they were not installed in the first place.

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

Do you mean that pm-uninstall should remove the dependencies of
WWW::Mexhanize::Firefox?

Cheers

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