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From:
David Golden
Date:
February 2, 2012 06:42
Subject:
Re: Reaction to Redhat/Fedora modified releases
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On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 8:10 AM, Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> wrote:
>> > because perl already splits @INC to core / vendor / site, in different
>> > directories (and that's awesome). there's unfortunately only one bin
>> > directory. :-)
>
> But that's somewhat hard to solve, as the perl binary defines where @INC
> is (and can split it apart into as many directories as are needed), whereas
> the user's PATH determines which binaries are found.

I think it's "solvable" for vendor needs if we can more clearly
identify which scripts come from core and which come from dual-life
modules.  Right now, they're all jumbled in utils/.

-- David

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