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Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 11:02:55 +0100
From: Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org>
To: Andrej Zverev <andrej.zverev@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: About the Perl .packlist files and their usefulness...
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+--On 29 octobre 2014 09:50:59 +0300 Andrej Zverev
<andrej.zverev@gmail.com> wrote:
| On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 8:35 PM, Mathieu Arnold <mat@freebsd.org> wrote:
|> 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 ?
| 
| 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.

I know what the file contains and what it's for, I'm asking if something
needs them, and if somebody uses them.

-- 
Mathieu Arnold