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Michael Cummings wrote: |
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> OK, no secret that wheels have been turning on how to handle this. |
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> Ultimately, the collision protect madness (if your not familiar with |
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> it, check bug 71659 should whet your appetite) stems from man page |
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> conflicts. I've gone through every package on my boxes, and the funny |
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> thing is, the only thing (no matter what actually uses the perl-module |
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> eclass) that installs anything in man3 are perl module pods being |
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> converted. Any apps we have that happen to use the eclass also simply |
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> don't generate man3 pages (or, if they do, it's in addition to any |
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> inline pods, not in place of). Below patch is to disable the pod2man |
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> generation and should have the quick, efficient effect of stopping 98% |
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> of our collision protects in perl. Let me know if you have any |
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> thoughts, probably will commit this tomorrow if I don't hear anything. |
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> ~mike |
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Isn't there a more elegant way than preventing pod being converted to |
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man pages? |
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I personally don't `man` my modules, so I won't suffer from it, but |
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maybe someone out there does? (otherwise, why is pod2man even being |
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invoked?). |
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Just my $.02... |
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--Yuval |
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