Perl modules also turn up when one goes beyond BLFS. This misunderstanding about their use and installation is simply stupendous. I think that the section on pm's is essential in a much broader sense.
Niko Sauer On 04/17/2012 06:01 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Andrew Benton wrote: >> On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:03:01 +0100 >> Ragnar Thomsen<[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> There are two very old tickets concerning updates to PDL (perl data >>> language) and perl modules. >>> >>> The version of PDL in the book is 8 years old. Can this package be >>> removed from blfs? >> >> I think so, I'm not aware of any use for it. >> >>> I don't use any of the perl modules. Can someone who actually uses >>> them look into their update/removal? >> >> I use a few of them (xml-parser, Archive-Zip), I could have a look at them. > > The PDL package provides perl support for numerical calculations. This should > not be confused with perl modules like xml-parser. > > I did a search through the book and find no references to pdl and agree that > it > can be removed from the book. > > Perl modules, on the other hand, are used in several places. The instructions > for installing perl modules is pretty generic. About the only thing that > changes is the version numbers in general.ent. > > A grep through the book shows the following sections referencing perl modules: > > general/genlib/libgsf.xml > general/prog/pdl.xml > general/prog/subversion.xml > general/graphlib/fontconfig.xml > general/genutils/intltool.xml > general/genutils/pilot-link.xml > general/genutils/imagemagick.xml > general/genutils/rxvt-unicode.xml > general/genutils/scrollkeeper.xml > general/genutils/icon-naming-utils.xml > gnome/add/gnome-games.xml > gnome/add/gnome-nettool.xml > gnome/core/metacity.xml > multimedia/audioutils/gnome-media.xml > networking/netprogs/wget.xml > pst/sgml/docbook-utils.xml > server/databases/postgresql.xml > server/major/bind.xml > x/wm/xfce.xml > xsoft/other/pidgin.xml > xsoft/office/gnucash.xml > xsoft/office/libreoffice.xml > xsoft/suites/openoffice.xml > > I didn't check, but some of the above may not be included in the book any > more. > > -- Bruce > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
