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Re: After potato, Yet Another Perl Renaming



According to Michael Koehne:
> well the problem is that distribution of perl modules in Debian is
> broken in concept!

I wasn't talking about modules, but Perl itself.  However:

>   - perl modules should be distributed in original form, to run the "perl
>     Makefile.PL; make; make test; make install" step during postinst.

No, because Perl modules must be installable on systems without gcc.

>   - Debian specific perlmodules should be found on CPAN.

I suppose so.

> So people who need to use XML/perl now, have to get rid of the
> Debian-Perl

No they don't!  That's what /usr/local/bin is for.  Perl is very happy
to coexist with other versions of itself.
-- 
Chip Salzenberg             - a.k.a. -              <chip@valinux.com>
     "Fleagal.  Bingo.  Drooper.  Snork.  They're cops."   //MST3K


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