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>>>>> On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 23:13:20 -0800, Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com> said: >> It also would be nice to explain why uninstall is deprecated. > *points at Andreas* He did it. ;) It would need some reference count mechanism. Last time I looked it was not there. It's not unusual to have two distributions on CPAN that install the same xxx.pm file. If this happens, you must not delete that file until the last distribution using that file gets uninstalled. Come to think of it, it happens with every upgrade and confronts us with this problem: install Foo-1.23 # installs Foo.pm and Foo/Junk.pm install Foo-1.24 # installs Foo.pm and Foo/Bunk.pm uninstall Foo-1.23 # must uninstall Foo/Junk.pm but keep Foo.pm uninstall Foo-1.24 # must uninstall Foo.pm and Foo/Bunk.pm -- andreasThread Previous | Thread Next