On 2012-09-07, at 12:20, Dave Rolsky <auta...@urth.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Sep 2012, sawyer x wrote: > >> It's not about putting weight strain on CPAN mirrors (though I'm not sure >> it's impossible to make such a claim), but of the pollution of CPAN. CPAN >> is meant to be a public repository, not a private stash. I have my bunch of >> things that I like to use too: my bashrc file, my Git aliases, Git >> terminal highlighting (a tweak I did off a tweak Pedro Melo did off a >> version Yuval Cogman did, if I recall correctly), my base Dist::Zilla >> dist.ini >> file, my ssh keys, and so on. I keep them on Github.com and on my private >> personal repository. > > I think it's also worth noting that every extra upload has the potential to > show up in search results. If the thing you're uploading isn't useful to > anyone else but it shows up in a search result, you've just made the search > result a little less useful. Very true. Although putting this stuff in its own namespace makes it easier to exclude from search results. I also don't find most of the author specific stuff to be useful, but if it has to be there it would be cleaner to segregate it into its own namespace. > Olaf
