Perl Library Locations

[Scott Penrose]

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On Saturday, February 2, 2002, at 06:42 , Brian May wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 10:41:25PM +1100, Scott Penrose wrote:
>> Now, debian standard says that ALL perl modules must be in (appropriate
>> per version) /usr/lib/perl/5.6/* without exception.
>
> Are you sure?
>
> My package (that is it was my package) diskless puts modules in
> /usr/lib/diskless, and then /usr/share/diskless (IIRC).
>
> I didn't here any compliants, and lintian had a few
> minor corrections but generally was happy.
>
> I think that /usr/lib/diskless is a better sport here, because these
> scripts were only useable by the diskless package.

Great, this is fantastic news, I will present this to our systems team 
who originally told me that they must be in /usr/lib/perl (et al.).

> I believe that these files are for your use and you can put anything
> you want here. Just don't put architecture specific files
> under /usr/share, or that might upset a few people...

Hehe

>> Does the Debian standard enforce this - or am I reading to much?
>
> Not AFAIK.

Great

Thanks for your help

Scott
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Scott Penrose
Open source and Linux Developer
http://linux.dd.com.au/
scottp at dd.com.au
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