Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report. Summary: Inconsistent @INC https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=448735 ------- Additional Comments From skasal@xxxxxxxxxx 2008-06-09 10:58 EST ------- In reply to comment #3 > Note: No COMPAT_5.8.* Note that I mentioned third party modules, that supposedly do not have the perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_5.x) require. But I see no reason why they should use vedor_perl/5.8.x, not just vendor_perl, so I agree with you that my argument was void. > How do other distros handle site_perl? A very quick look: I visited random debian machine, with perl 5.8.4, observing: @INC: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.4 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.4 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl . Note: /usr/*/perl/5.8 is a symlink to the corresponding /usr/*/perl/5.8.4 . I understand that only partially. Unlike Fedora, the site_perl modules do not override the vendor-supplied ones. But there are those /usr/local/*/perl/5.8.4 special directories so that users have a way to override vendor-supplied perl modules, if there is a real need. But many aspects of this setup elude me: - Why are the modules divided into lib and share, even for /usr/*/perl/5.8, which is populated by the perl-base package? Does that mean that the *.pm under /usr/lib, though text files, are architecture dependent? - Why is /usr/*/perl5 before the corresponding perl-base-populated directories? Does that imply that a module package can override modules provided by the core perl package? Is that desirable? Since I'm puzzled, I can't get much from observing the Debian setup. It looks inspiring to put site_perl near the end of @INC; but the request to provide a site hook to override our modules would probably come immediately and I'm not sure the change is worth all the hassle... -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. -- Fedora Extras Perl SIG http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/Perl Fedora-perl-devel-list mailing list Fedora-perl-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-perl-devel-list
