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Leon Timmermans wrote: > On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Ramkumar Ramachandra > <artagnon@gmail.com> wrote: >> gem (from Ruby) uses ~/.ruby, and pip (from Python) uses ~/.local. >> There are countless other programs that use dot-directories. Non-dot >> directories in ~ are meant for user-created files only, and it annoys >> me that cpan's first run creates a ~/perl5. Fix this. > > First of all, your tone is rather rude. "X annoys me. Fix this." is no > way to talk to anyone, specially not when you're asking strangers for > their help. I'm sorry that you've misunderstood, but this is a commit message. You should interpret it as instructions to be executed on the codebase (like code), not prose intended for other people. Code and commit messages are never rude, condescending, disrespectful, or otherwise: they're direct, terse, and precise instructions. > Secondly, this is the wrong tracker. CPAN's bugtracker can be found at > https://rt.cpan.org/Dist/Display.html?Name=CPAN. Only modules > maintained in core should have their bugs reported on perl's own > bugtracker. Oh, my apologies: don't you have one issue tracker/ mailing list for one repository? Could you direct me on how to instruct perlbug to send the issue to the right tracker? Thanks.Thread Previous | Thread Next