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Subject: Re: About the Perl .packlist files and their usefulness...
From: Andrej Zverev <andrej.zverev@gmail.com>
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Glad you know.

On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Mathieu Arnold <mat@freebsd.org> wrote:

> +--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
>