On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: > Aaron Schneider writes: >> Since a lot of people are having issues because 'perl_vendor' is not >> installed when should, wouldn't be better to set perl_vendor as a >> mandatory dependency of perl so just everyone gets it installed? I >> guess package size won't be an issue. > > No, please don't — I have compiled my own perl packages and need > perl_vendor to stay out of the way. If anything this would be a hint > that hiding packages in perl_vendor, while helping to keep the number of > packages down, doesn't help people finding what they need.
Please don't spread fud. Self-compiled cpan packages are always favored over vendor packages. See your @INC. -- Reini Urban http://cpanel.net/ http://www.perl-compiler.org/ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple