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From: Jeff Rollin <jeff.rollin@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-perl+unsubscribe@g.o, gentoo-perl@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-perl] [RFC] Some thoughts on the next release of perl
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 21:58:26
Message-Id: 8a0028260704041458q1d2be7c7j67b31fcd51bf2439@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-perl] [RFC] Some thoughts on the next release of perl by Michael Cummings
1 On 04/04/07, Michael Cummings <mcummings@g.o> wrote:
2 > On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 10:11:25AM +0200, Christian Hartmann wrote:
3 > >
4 > > Why not just give the choice to the user and create a new useflag
5 > > (e.g. 'vanilla-inc') to toggle this?
6 >
7 > I was going to point out that when we had a vanilla @INC was when we had
8 > problems with perl-core modules (as they now are) overwriting core modules,
9 > which really broke things when unmerged...but that was before we were forcing
10 > everything to install into vendor as well...so yeah, that might just work :)
11 >
12 > But then it begs the question, why not just go with vanilla at that point? (I
13 > know there has to be an argument against this, I just can't remember what it
14 > might be.)
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