In FS #37, Tilman Sauerbeck wrote:
I feel this patch violates the KISS concept, it's a tad too much magic for me :/
I think the suggested patch is simple and not very magical, but alternatives are of course welcome. In any case, please try to weight the pros against the cons: + Less maintenance + Fewer bogus mismatches for users + Less noise in our svn history - A simple (but none-the-less additional) expression added to an existing sed proc in pkgmk
Also, if we do it for Perl, we'd have to do it for any other package that uses version information in directories somehow.
Why would we have to do that? It would of course make sense - if that other package had 9819 potential packages (CPAN module count) which installed files in its micro-versioned directory ;-)
"But Perl is in core, $other_package isn't" is a weak excuse :P
Yes, but I haven't used it. To look for bad excuses, please read the mail :-)