DH wrote:
>> Does anyone care about packlist ever? Mine is constantly growing being
>>never cleaned up.
>
> That's the whole purpose of .packlist files.
> Yours is growing cause you're developing these modules? (who cares if
it grows, don't tell me
> you're worried about precious bytes)
No, it's not the size which matters but rather the mess it creates.
BTW, does 'make uninstall' from MakeMaker works now?
>>If it comes to packages uninstall, then it's mostly
>>done by packaging tools without any of perl interference.
>
> And how do said packaging tools know what's what?
Package (or port) creator knows, therefore the tools know.
Whatever...
>> What I mean here is that .packlist can be created, but is there any
>>point of its existence?
>
> Yes.
> I like to use ExtUtils::Installed quite a lot, especially in
uninstalling modules,
> and it works off .packlist files, cause that's what they're for.
> Every good module includes them.
Can you make the patch? 8)
-- /Voland Vadim Belman http://www.lflat.org http://www.lflat.netReceived on Tue 19 Nov 2002 - 09:33:42 CET
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