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Re: Perl policy for managing modules ?



> Le Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 02:31:40AM -0700, Darren/Torin/Who Ever... écrivait:
> > I do worry about what this might break as well.  Another option would be 
> > to have /usr/lib/perl5/debian(/$arch)? be the first element of @INC and
> > leave /usr/lib/perl5/$version(/$arch)? there with only the Perl
> > installed files.  I'll ask on p5p if this will break things.

My question is, why are we so intent on removing the versioned
component even though we have lost binary compatibility?  I understand
that it requires some packaging changes, but the packaging can usually
be easily rewritten to work for any version (use perl5/5.*/, etc.).

Dan


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