Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 11:02:55 +0100 From: Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org> To: Andrej Zverev <andrej.zverev@gmail.com>, "perl@FreeBSD.org" <perl@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: About the Perl .packlist files and their usefulness... Message-ID: <7FBD1DAC8B80F551F31B2DDE@ogg.in.absolight.net> In-Reply-To: <CAD5bB%2Bj62X97-b54_3nRve_qxLFS%2BhLphhRfqC7X7xCUDavXtA@mail.gmail.com> References: <20141028173511.GA77596@prod2.absolight.net> <CAD5bB%2Bj62X97-b54_3nRve_qxLFS%2BhLphhRfqC7X7xCUDavXtA@mail.gmail.com>
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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
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