Ed Avis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>I'll have a look some time.  I'd expect, however, that it was
>deprecated because it no longer works.

make uninstall 

is deprecated because the old way has been superceded by ExtUtils::Install

>
>>Otherwise, I'd rather just leave packlists as they are and extend
>>Module::Build instead.
>
>What I am getting at is: if I want to contribute a patch to MakeMaker,
>do I need to worry about packlists?  

IMHO if you touch the parts that alter what is installed (rather than what 
is built or how it is built) then yes.

>And if so, what should be the
>convention for packlists in directories not owned by perl, such as
>/usr/share/doc/?

There is one .packlist file for the whole module. It is written 
to "archlib" where you install other perl stuff for module. 
It can of course _list_ things in other directories. 



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