Subject: Re: Replacing parts of a pkg with another pkg
To: Matthias Scheler <tron@lyssa.owl.de>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 05/25/1999 17:11:38
On 25 May 1999, Matthias Scheler wrote:

: > Does anyone have a clever idea to handle this?
: 
: Nuke "CGI.pm" from the base perl package.

That doesn't help much, now that a whole bunch of people already have perl
binary pkgs that contain it.

Now, if you mean remove it from +CONTENTS and pkgdb, that could work, but
we need to have a mechanism to do that cleanly -- perhaps an @override type
of directive?

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-- Todd Vierling (Personal tv@pobox.com; Bus. todd_vierling@xn.xerox.com)