https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1936241 Petr Pisar <ppisar@xxxxxxxxxx> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |CLOSED Resolution|--- |NOTABUG Doc Type|--- |If docs needed, set a value Last Closed| |2021-03-08 14:20:02 --- Comment #1 from Petr Pisar <ppisar@xxxxxxxxxx> --- The move from /usr/local/share/perl to /usr/local/share/perl/$VERSION was done in Fedora 31 (with Perl 5.30). It was documented in Fedora 31 Release Notes <https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/f31/release-notes/developers/Development_Perl/>. The reason for the move was that every second Fedora delivers a new, binary incompatible, perl and people who blindly installs modules from CPAN were reporting that "perl stopped working after Fedora upgrade". The problem was that the new interpreter attempted to load and execute their old modules built for the previous perl. The recommended solution for them was to reinstall their CPAN modules. But that proved to be difficult because the reinstallation itself could have been affected by the very same incompatible modules. Therefore we decided to start versioning the Perl site path. That way everybody needs to reinstall their CPAN modules if he wants use them with the new perl. It's less error prone than keeping the paths polluted with the old CPAN modules and getting unexpected crashes when loading the old modules by an accident. At the end it's what other software distributions (e.g. Debian or Gentoo) do. It stems from the fact that every new perl as provided by Perl5 Porters is binary incompatible. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ perl-devel mailing list -- perl-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to perl-devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/perl-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
