Ken Moffat wrote: > I've changed the indexing of all the perl modules which are or were > fully in the book from Other to Packages (although I think I said > 'Programs' in the commit message : bad ken). This matches the > python modules : versions don't show in longindex.html, but they are > in the first part of the index instead of right down at hte bottom. > > My general view of perl modules is that they are either a build > dependency or a runtime dependency for something else. I use a few > which provide a program, but those aren't in the book. So for > tagging I need to find what uses them. The following are not yet > tagged - > > Glib-1.280 : used by Xfconf > > libwww-perl : used by wget > > So I can give those two a try. > > But for the remaining four, I do believe they are obsolete: > > Crypt::SSLeay - was used by gnucash, which has been archived, and is > used by Finance::Quote (see below) > > Date::Manip - at the risk of offending Good Sir Bruce, I can only > find gnucash and Finance::QuoteHist (which has been commented out) > using this.
I sure thought that something needed it yesterday, but a grep through all my logs shows no hits. It was probably just a hit by a script that it was out of date. > Finance::Quote - was used by gnucash > > HTML::TableExtract was used by Finance:;QuoteHist (q.v.) > > It is possible I have overlooked something. If not, is it ok to > comment these four modules ? Yes, I think that's reasonable. There are hundreds of these modules, so having something not needed is just putting them with all the rest. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
