On 2011-04-16 12:02 -0400 (15:6) Dave Reisner wrote: > On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 11:57:33AM -0400, Justin Davis wrote: > > Please delete perl-docs. I would like to resubmit it and rename it to > > perldocs. This is trivial, of course, but it bugs me. Packages for > > perl modules are prefixed with perl- but perl-docs is simply the > > documentation for perl and not a "Docs" module. The file it downloads > > is named perldoc and there is a command for reading installed perl > > documentation called perldoc so it seems more appropriate to call the > > package perldocs. > > > > I know it sounds crazy! Please humor me! Here is the link: > > http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22294 > > > > Thanks, > > Justin (aka aurperl) > > Consider yourself humored. > > dave
It should probably be called perl-perldoc if you want to be rigorous, i.e. all Perl packages should be prefixed with "perl-" regardless if they begin with "perl" themselves. It makes it easier to write tools for Perl package management.
