Subject: Re: New p5 Date-Calc package questions.
To: None <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
From: Tom Spindler <dogcow@redback.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 12/23/1999 14:19:36
> > Q1) The first file (perllocal.pod) also exists in the net/p5-Net-DNS
> > package, and thus will conflict. No other perl5 package seems to
> > add this file. Any advice?
>
> Move this out of this and the net/p5-Net-DNS package, and add a
> @unexec rm .../perllocal.pod
> line to the perl package. That way, whatever random package notes it's
> existance there, it will be removed once perl is wiped out.
> Perl should do this more sane, but we're not here to save the world.
The perllocal.pod file is a log of what modules have been been installed
that are not in the base set; IMNSHO, this file should be be part of the
base perl5 package, and merely updated (if so wished) by the p5-foo
packages.