Re: State of the Art wrt XML/XSL.
Michael Koehne wrote:
> the debian way handling perl is broken :
>
> - debian does not know, if I install a new module using CPAN, and may
> want to overwrite it with an older module, at next dselect, if some
> debian package thinks it need this module.
equivs
> - its not possible to ask the Debian Perl for an autobundle, and to
> remake a complete new Perl, as critical modules for running Debian
> are missing on CPAN.
You're not thinking about perl in the debian way, and that is your whole
problem. What is the point of making a bundle on a debian system?
> - its impossible to query those critical Perl modules for documentation
> using e.g. 'perldoc Debian::DebConf' shows me 'No documentation found'.
That is because debconf does not include a module by that name (duh), and
because I strip the pod docs to save space on the base system. All
user-level docs are in debconf-doc; the pod docs are in the source
package and are only useful to people who are extending debconf and
would need the source package anyway.
Debconf is a bad example here; there is absoltely no reason why perldoc
will not work on debian perl module packages that have pod
documentation in the binary package.
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see shy jo
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