Re: [gentoo-perl] [RFC] Some thoughts on the next release of perl

["Jeff Rollin" <jeff.rollin@gmail.com>]

On 04/04/07, Michael Cummings <mcummings@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 10:11:25AM +0200, Christian Hartmann wrote:
> >
> > Why not just give the choice to the user and create a new useflag
> > (e.g. 'vanilla-inc') to toggle this?
>
> I was going to point out that when we had a vanilla @INC was when we had
> problems with perl-core modules (as they now are) overwriting core modules,
> which really broke things when unmerged...but that was before we were forcing
> everything to install into vendor as well...so yeah, that might just work :)
>
> But then it begs the question, why not just go with vanilla at that point? (I
> know there has to be an argument against this, I just can't remember what it
> might be.)
>
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