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  • From: "Robert Helgesson" <rycee AT home.se>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] perl status and proposal
  • Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 20:30:19 +0200

On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 16:54:52 +0200, Vladimír Marek wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to present you my current status of works on perl cpan
> modules.
>
> First of all, I think it would be good to use
> '-Dsiteprefix=/usr/lib/perl_modules' switch for Configure dureing perl
> build. From documentation:
>
> -- cut --
> This variable holds the full absolute path of the directory below which
> the user will install add-on packages.
> -- cut --
>
> Which means that by installing perl modules we will not overwrite files
> from perl installation (for example Term::Cap is installed by perl
> itself, but we can also install newer version of it from CPAN). The real
> problem with overwriting files is when the module is deleted, leaving
> perl possibly in non-functional state.
>
> of course we can chose different directory than /usr/lib/perl_modules
> (any suggestion ?). I am testing my perl work with this directory set,
> so there should not be problems.
>
> Do you have any comments to this ?

Very good, I think this is a nice idea. Not having to use triggers for
each perl spell would be a time saver :)

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