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Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
How tough would this be?
# perl -MPerl::Mover -e 'copyperl "/home/me/local"'
Perl/Mover.pm does whatever's needed regarding binedits, relinking,
and whatnot. Would this allow us to remove the discussion from
internals, at least?
-John
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