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.
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