Discussion of Spells and Grimoire items

["Sergey A. Lipnevich" <sergey AT optimaltec.com>]

DB_File is a part of Perl distribution (but not Perl itself). It was 
always like this: DB_File inside Perl and another DB_File as a separate 
spell. I don't know why, but my guess is that Perl's distribution 
changes infrequently, and DB_File goes through several iterations while 
Perl's tarball is always the same.

Eric Sandall wrote:

> Sergey A. Lipnevich said:
>  
>
> > It's a part of Perl, and the way I explained it, Perl's makefile simply
> > picks up the new DB_File. No changes to BUILD, only in PRE_BUILD to
> > unpack the new DB_File, and in DETAILS to mention DB_File as SOURCE2.
> >    
>
> If it's a part of perl, why do we have a DB_File spell?  And if we unpack
> the DB_File and install it as part of perl, that also will be misleading
> in that the user will now have DB_File installed, but sorcery will not
> know that.
>
> -One of Four
> a.k.a. sandalle
>
>