Re: [PATCH resend] perl/Makefile.PL: teach makefiles about possible old Error.pm files

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On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 10:26:14AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > I guess I take the view that anything _installed_ by git is a part of git.
> > If git installs Error.pm, it can't expect the user to keep it around
> > if he uninstalls that version of git.
> 
> True, as we do not give "uninstall" target.  That's what distros are for.

I don't see how you can say "true" to what I said and keep git doing the
exact opposite. :-)

Anyway, there are other ways to fix this than INSTALLED_BY and I'm not
married to that idea, but if this isn't seen as a problem in the first
place, there's little use.

Would you accept a patch to the INSTALL file explaining this dependency?

Thanks,
- Chris

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