On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 11:42:06AM +0100, Leon Timmermans wrote: > On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Tim Bunce <tim.bu...@pobox.com> wrote: > > A separate install database for each install location seems like the only > > workable approach. > > One minor complication of that is the strictest sense an "install > location" isn't all that well defined. Or perhaps I should say every > dist has 8 install locations with unspecified relationship on the > filesystem (lib, arch, bin, script, libdoc, bindoc, libhtml, binhtml). > In practice you may want to use lib *and* arch (they are never used > simultaneously, but stuff in lib may be shared over different perl > installations, contrary to arch which should be for one specific > install).
Good point. Strengthening the definition of an "install location" would be good. Supporting only the common subset of possible layouts seems reasonable. Tim.
