At 03:25 PM 8/4/00 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>Simon Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Sounds good. Here's a slight modification: perllib.db is a cache;
> > lookups take place as normal, but then any new information is written
> > into the cache. The cache is invalided every $configurable period.
>
>Putting on my sysadmin hat, anything that a program wants to modify during
>its normal course of operation and isn't a dotfile in the user's home
>directory is inherently Evil and not to be tolerated if at all possible.
I fully agree. Not that I dislike the idea of figuring out file locations
at module install time instead of runtime, mind--I rather like that. (Do
the work once, rather than every darned time) make install, however, should
be the only thing that messes with these files.
Dan
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