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Re: CPAN modules in FHS violation



On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 10:57:49PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> we're just having a debate on this: aren't CPAN modules installed by
> Debian's perl into /usr in violation of the FHS? Shouldn't they really
> go to /usr/local as they aren't part of the distro?

They aren't. "perl Makefile.PL;make;make install" installs in
/usr/local.

The program dh-make-perl makes it trivial to transform a CPAN module
into a debian package. Debian packages make up the distro, so install in
/usr.

-- 
Bart.



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