On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 02:09:42AM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 12:37, Kenneth Pronovici wrote: > > So, it's safe to say that leaving the .pm files in /usr/lib does not > > violate policy? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:anthony$ find /usr/lib -name '*.pl' -or -name '*.pm' | wc -l > 312 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:anthony$ find /usr/lib -name '*.pl' -or -name '*.pm' > -print0 | xargs -0 dpkg -S | cut -d ':' -f1 | sort -u | wc -l > 33 > > And I don't have that many perl packages installed. > > "In each of the directory pairs above, the lib component is for > binary (XS) modules, and share for architecture-independent > (pure-perl) modules." (Perl Policy, 1.3)
The .pm files in /usr/lib are primarily bootstrapping shells around the XS modules. They should be considered as part of the binary modules. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
