Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]> writes:
> Answering myself, it appears that those are part of RHEL10's perl-libs
> package, while Tie::Array and Tie::StdArray are part of the perl-Tie
> package. That seems at first glance like a really awful packaging
> decision, something not entirely without precedent.
Poking around, it looks like they may have done that because
parent.pm ("use parent" support) requires Tie::StdHash, and they
wanted that in the base installation. It does seem pretty strange
though. There is not much in perl-Tie:
$ rpm -ql perl-Tie
/usr/share/man/man3/Tie::Array.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Tie::Handle.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Tie::Scalar.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Tie::StdHandle.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Tie::SubstrHash.3pm.gz
/usr/share/perl5/Tie
/usr/share/perl5/Tie/Array.pm
/usr/share/perl5/Tie/Handle.pm
/usr/share/perl5/Tie/Scalar.pm
/usr/share/perl5/Tie/StdHandle.pm
/usr/share/perl5/Tie/SubstrHash.pm
I see the same division in RHEL9. Don't have a live RHEL8
installation to check anymore.
regards, tom lane
