From owner-freebsd-perl@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 29 06:51:00 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: perl@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2E81A3F5; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 06:51:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ob0-x236.google.com (mail-ob0-x236.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4003:c01::236]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E0A9E9B0; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 06:50:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ob0-f182.google.com with SMTP id nt9so2071432obb.41 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2014 23:50:59 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=FCfhA/dNSyXlEi85hYAlDIH5on0NG7ZK+e64Xo481xw=; b=knI3AEUX9awMfO8vojUjXghqdB7pkp0Yc5n5+e0WgqPoznDvEUXj5ch4lgQbg8y0jy Bt7xgo60f6ZJHxTA660TBMNPZBJXLeZVK08fVwv1E5qXMHWt45y1ELxP3WeN7bXGvN5m dm3HukFKbmWC7qZ15o2BsmK8Bu+tV6JEn82ODUjtI+UEkPDg7DO4gWYdNGjVvTp91pJI 97lmHWN2vmXogW68bF6a9CfXSHId3z9kL0LaAUG7ZjIev5Ok4GjWdjSVXcsPP6F+2Mm0 kVK82AaklSvF5ZJBhduboZHd6qMJSxO4I57mglaoemA2OOIY+dvLJqt4uql4zDwNiFii CEKA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.202.187.8 with SMTP id l8mr6738870oif.20.1414565459179; Tue, 28 Oct 2014 23:50:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.182.139.9 with HTTP; Tue, 28 Oct 2014 23:50:59 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20141028173511.GA77596@prod2.absolight.net> References: <20141028173511.GA77596@prod2.absolight.net> Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 09:50:59 +0300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: About the Perl .packlist files and their usefulness... From: Andrej Zverev To: "perl@FreeBSD.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18-1 Cc: "cvs-ports@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-perl@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: maintainer of a number of perl-related ports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 06:51:00 -0000 It simply duplicates the functionality of our package manager. What files are installed. See the list of these files. Delete these files. So in short, we don't need this file inside packages. On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 8:35 PM, Mathieu Arnold wrote: > Hi, > > I have some infrastructure work on the stove, and I was wondering if > there was any *real* need for the .packlist files. If someone really > uses them, what for, and could some other source of file list be used ? > > Regards, > > -- > Mathieu Arnold >