David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> At 1:18 AM -0400 10/24/02, David Miller wrote:
> 
> > .... but only when you tell it not to install lwp-request
> >
> > If I okay it to install lwp-request, it prompts individually if you want
> > HEAD, GET, and POST created, so I can tell it not to create those.  If you
> > tell it not to install lwp-request, it never bothers to ask about the
> > aliases, but then goes and creates them anyway.

Oops!

> > On Mac OS X, this results in /usr/bin/head getting overwritten because the
> > file system isn't case sensitive.
> >
> > If you tell it not to install lwp-request, it should automatically not
> > install the aliases, since there's no lwp-request for them to point at
> > anyway.
> >
> > This was experienced with libwww-perl-5.65 fresh out of CPAN.
> 
> And again with libwww-perl-5.68
> 
> It appears if you tell it not to install lwp-request, it actually installs
> a HEAD that really is lwp-request, rather than an alias to it.
> 
> The following seems to fix this.

Thank you.  A variation of that patch has now been applied.

Regards,
Gisle

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