On Wed, 16 May 2007, Marcus Rueckert wrote:
On 2007-05-16 11:21:00 +0200, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
suse $ perl -V:installvendorarch -V:installvendorlib installvendorarch='/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i586-linux-thread-multi'; installvendorlib='/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8';
debian $ perl -V:installvendorarch -V:installvendorlib installvendorarch='/usr/lib/perl5'; installvendorlib='/usr/share/perl5';
Couldn't we have a lot more noarch packages by defining those variables the Debian way? That would also allow to install perl modules from newer/older distros as the exact version number is not encoded in the path.
same goes for python and ruby btw. but those patches are not upstream for any of the 3 languages. another problem would be that you cant have noarch and arch packages from the same spec.
One more reason to fix this.
Richard.
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Richard Guenther