On Mon, 11 Feb 2013 09:57:21 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 03:48:17AM -0600, Yaakov wrote: > >The attached patch finds DLLs in certain directories that may have been > >installed via CPAN (Perl), easy_install (Python), pecl (PHP), gem > >(Ruby), or R's install.packages() command. [snip] > >+ # some interpreters include a method for installing addons outside of > >the > >+ # package manager, such as CPAN and RubyGems. > >+ for d in /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/py*/site-packages \ > >+ /usr/lib/php /usr/lib/R/site-library /usr/lib/ruby/gems > > Wouldn't it be a little better to maintain a list of directories to > search in an external file? Then savvy packages could update that > file as needed.
I'm not sure that is the best way to handle it, for a few reasons: 1) Each of those packages will need to be rebuilt to provide such a file before it would be of any benefit, vs. isolating the changes to rebaseall (which needs to be updated either way) which could be shipped immediately. 2) CPAN-like systems don't arrive every day, so this list should be static for the foreseeable future. If this were a more fluid list, I would tend to agree with you, but in this case I think it's an overkill. Yaakov
