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Date:      Mon, 4 Apr 2016 20:30:29 +0930
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        perl@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Perl vendor directory
Message-ID:  <3827D28F-3562-4D9D-9BDD-7C3841622458@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <436F5A55071BDCBDA00F0F3B@ogg.in.absolight.net>
References:  <2490D243-A6AF-453A-A7AA-E7246CD57639@gsoft.com.au> <436F5A55071BDCBDA00F0F3B@ogg.in.absolight.net>

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> On 4 Apr 2016, at 19:25, Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> The vendor prefix is only enabled when you build Perl with
> PERL_VENDOR_PREFIX defined.

Ahh OK..

> The vendor prefix is supposed to be used by vendors to put their stuff
> there, so that it does not conflict with the Perl distribution or the
> regular Perl modules.
>=20
> ZM should be a good boy and install its stuff in site, like eveyrbody =
else.
> (It could also like some bad boys install its stuff wherever it wants =
too,
> like in a hierarchy it handles itself, but it's not really a good =
idea.)

I guess they have a differing opinion :)
I have no idea what the "right" way is - I haven't touched perl in a =
long time :)

I only brought it up because the ZM devs seem to think the vendor path =
is the right place (perhaps it is on Linux..?)

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