On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 11:58:08PM +0100, Pascal Bleser wrote:
> Nevertheless, the logic still applies to Perl, because every package (even 
> those that only contain
> pure Perl code) has a .packlist file under
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.7/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/auto/
> (this one for x86_64)
> 
> Hence, and only because of that, Perl packages are all arch-specific (= never 
> noarch).
> The .packlist is not critical though, and that's why some perl packages may 
> work even if it's not
> the correct package architecture, if they only contain pure Perl code.

Hmm, good point. IMHO the .packlist should not be in installarchlib
if the package contains only "noarch" data, i.e. nothing else
is in installarchlib.

Cheers,
  Michael.

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