https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=804070
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=804070#c21
--- Comment #21 from L. A. Walsh 2013-03-05 16:30:55 PST ---
1) The same thing happens on 12.2 where you have Perl 5.16.0 installed.
I installed by hand, 5.16.1, and everything still worked.
I added some packages that apparently had deps in perl, from Factory --
that pulled in 5.16.2 --
Yast broke -- why? Because it had a hard coded include path to only include
5.16.1 and 5.16.0, -- it excluded the path where perl's libs were.
2), Let's say it was from 12.1 -- where 5.14 was in use..
In the past, I could upgrade, and when I discovered a problem (there usually
wasn't a problem that affected the rpms I used (including yast2 and gvim),
that didn't also affect my cpan libs -- so I ended up rebuilding ALL packages.
Again -- I was back to a working system.
The current system breaks, not only in minor releases as in #1, but precludes
the user fixing their system by updating the perl modules. as in #2.
Both of those options *used* to work, and still should.
The fact that they don't is a needless limitation.
As for the perl in /usr/bin. Like everything on my system. It is for
*MY* use. Otherwise I wouldn't install it -- just like my kernel which I
install.
I don't want a "Tivo" that I can't modify. You are trying, no, you are
changing what was an open distribution to one that is becoming closed and
unmodifiable by the user.
It isn't supposed to be a closed product -- it never used to be -- but you are
changing it that way and I and other people are resisting that change. We may
not succeed in stopping the change, but we can make sure our voices are heard.
I don't want my system converted to secure-boot with MS-only signed binaries --
but that seems to be where you are taking what was supposed to be OPEN source,
and an open system.
I have no problem with making those things optional, but you are closing off
the alternatives when, you don't have to.
My initial example was with 12.1, and there I would need to rebuild the perl
modules -- as I usually end up doing after a major upgrade. But it also
happens in 12.2 where it won't support 12.3's perl and in 12.3 where the same
software methodology is in place.
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