Eric Wilhelm wrote:
# from Ken Williams
# on Thursday 06 March 2008 18:22:
INSTALLDIRS => ($] >= 5.009004 ? 'perl' : 'site'), #C
Now, does that do everything we'd want?
No, it still does the wrong thing whenever site and vendor are in the
right order.
>
# from Michael G Schwern
# on Wednesday 27 February 2008 12:40:
3. dual-life modules have a habit of doing the wrong thing on
debian
They should be setting INSTALLDIRS=site and --installdirs=site in
their CPAN shell configurations. That would solve the problem. I
believe they do, at least in the default configurations.
I think this still falls into the "mass education" category, so if we're
going to have a method, it should check @INC and just use site if site
has precedence.
Mass education is not necessary, it's something the vendor can (and do) take
care of. Module::Build is a bit of a problem because most vendors are
shipping a stock 5.8.8 which comes with a CPAN.pm that doesn't understand
Module::Build, so they're not setting --installdirs=site as the default, but
that will be fixed with time.
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When I look out there it makes me glad I'm not you.
I've experiments to be run.
There is research to be done
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