From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nz9kh-0001MM-Vn for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:27:40 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AC13CE0B36; Tue, 6 Apr 2010 14:27:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eagle.jhcloos.com (eagle.jhcloos.com [207.210.242.212]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D28F4E0B2D for ; Tue, 6 Apr 2010 14:27:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eagle.jhcloos.com (Postfix, from userid 10) id A484440072; Tue, 6 Apr 2010 14:27:04 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=jhcloos.com; s=eagle; t=1270564048; bh=9nMKWqbXbRJlx2WcwkfUXvIZbe03JC7vr4y4t59n49E=; h=From:To:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:Message-ID: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=Z6CLM6M1XfpvzANjD7T+V3gWN8XNXW0P/lwGoUU5A9rubv+b8W+xlqNc0HD1Zgqon Cu9jeQEz5pywxymsV+ppmj9TjO2NCJzTcghui6K7xKNSzdnDgXyxBTxRL9b9+tvXAp Z090/ZEIfYqaIe5iXggrjx/5ExXHBNCX2rcIZ5Ps= Received: by lugabout.jhcloos.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id 2A38AA011D; Tue, 6 Apr 2010 14:25:51 +0000 (UTC) From: James Cloos To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: perl eclass review - EAPI=3 + new helper eclass In-Reply-To: <20100403122902.TAc3125.tv@veller.net> (Torsten Veller's message of "Sat, 3 Apr 2010 12:33:48 +0200") References: <20100330111154.GA28735@veller.net> <20100403122902.TAc3125.tv@veller.net> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1.90 (gnu/linux) Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAQCAYAAAAf8/9hAAAABHNCSVQICAgIfAhkiAAAAI1J REFUOE+lU9ESgCAIg64P1y+ngUdxhl5H8wFbbM0OmUiEhKkCYaZThXCo6KE5sCbA1DDX3genvO4d eBQgEMaM5qy6uWk4SfBYfdu9jvBN9nSVDOKRtwb+I3epboOsOX5pZbJNsBJFvmQQ05YMfieIBnYX FK2N6dOawd97r/e8RjkTLzmMsiVgrAoEugtviCM3v2WzjgAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== Copyright: Copyright 2009 James Cloos OpenPGP: ED7DAEA6; url=http://jhcloos.com/public_key/0xED7DAEA6.asc OpenPGP-Fingerprint: E9E9 F828 61A4 6EA9 0F2B 63E7 997A 9F17 ED7D AEA6 Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 10:25:27 -0400 Message-ID: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Hashcash: 1:30:100406:gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org::NlBVUjowiNoBZUWZ:000000000000000000000000000000000LAvdc X-Archives-Salt: c109a964-a992-4cf4-aa8a-c6a9a8b70499 X-Archives-Hash: adc94f616f322d80f2cbb868d1fd4e28 >>>>> "TV" == Torsten Veller writes: TV> * James Cloos : >> One change the perl eclasses require is elimination of the code which >> deletes the man pages. >> >> Deleting the man pages is /extremely/ rude and should not occur. TV> There was a reason why the man-pages were removed: I think it was TV> collisions protection and perl people use `perldoc` anyway. Perl people -- I'm one -- use man(1); given the differences in usefulness, I cannot imagine why anyone would prefer perldoc(1) over man(1). TV> Do we need a patch to avoid collisions? Do you have it ready and tested? I've never seen any collisions due to installing the man pages. -JimC -- James Cloos OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6