On Jun 17, 2012, at 5:38 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > Does anybody know what purpose the .packlist files in p5 modules serve?
ExtUtils::Installed uses them. They're probably not super-useful when you've got MacPorts that can also tell you what is installed - but I wouldn't be surprised if there is stuff out there that depends on them being there. > We have block in the perl5 portgroup and in several individual ports copied > from there which fixes the .packlist files by removing the destroot path from > them, but do we even need the files at all? The archlinux perl packaging > guidelines, for example, say .packlist files should be deleted, along with > perllocal.pod files. IIRC debian doesn't install them either. Are they causing a problem for us? -- Daniel J. Luke +========================================================+ | *---------------- [email protected] ----------------* | | *-------------- http://www.geeklair.net -------------* | +========================================================+ | Opinions expressed are mine and do not necessarily | | reflect the opinions of my employer. | +========================================================+ _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
