Last perl build broke my instance of perl and made it necessary to reinstall archlinux or try to. Maybe I'll get that done tomorrow. On Sat, 2 Jun 2012, Myra Nelson wrote: > While working on some AUR packages, I took a look at the PKGBUILD > prototypes that come with pacman. The one difference that I had a > question about has to do with this snippet: > > _author=AUTHOR_NAME > > _perlmod=MODNAME > > pkgname=perl-$_perlmod > > pkgver=VERSION > > Since the MODNAME package being downloaded is, major caveat --usually, > BackPAN-Index-0.40.tar.gz that would make the pkgname > perl-BackPAN-Index-$pkgver[whatever]. A quick survey of the Arch > package database still shows packages still named like > perl-backpan-index-$pkgver[whatever]. I've yet to use the pkgname > style, but was wondering if this is the future of perl package naming? > > Myra > ---------------------------------------------------------------- Jude <jdashiel-at-shellworld-dot-net> <http://www.shellworld.net/~jdashiel/nj.html>
