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?

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