Adam Kennedy wrote:

=item * Distributors

Distributors should mark the different generations of mod_perl as
conflicting, so only one version can be installed using the binary
package. Users requiring more than one installation should do a manual
install.

>>> So I presume this would apply to all of Apache-related CPAN modules >>> as well? >>> >>> Wouldn't this mean that people like debian are going to have >>> >>> libapache-module-perl and libapache2-module-perl and have them marked >>> as conflicting?

In order to have any of the packages installed they need to have the correct modperl package installed. So there is no need to mark the 3rd party modules as conflicting, since their most important prerequisite (the modperl-core) is already handling that.

But again, this is just an idea so far. If I were the packager I'd do that. Of course real packagers can decide to use this suggestion or build all mp2 core and 3rd party modules into Apache2/ subdir, in which case the two will always co-exist.

The thing is: 99.9% of users need to have only one modperl generation, therefore I think the conflicting marking is the preferrable approach. But I could be wrong.

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