Spilt libperl from perl

Robin Norwood rnorwood at redhat.com
Thu Apr 26 15:13:59 UTC 2007


David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> writes:

> On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 14:39 -0500, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
>> I'm not going to support making a libperl subpackage to dodge fixing
>> multilib. By doing this, we just slide down the slippery slope of
>> avoiding the problem, and relying on dirty hacks instead of solving
>> the hard problems. 
>
> I believe you retracted this on IRC, after I pointed out that this is
> actually the _fix_ to avoid the dirty hack in RPM which allows the
> installation of conflicting files.
>
> You said we'd go ahead and split the package. But it doesn't seem to
> have been done yet -- are we still going ahead with it? 

I have the split in CVS - I'm waiting for Tom to have a chance to review
it before I do a real build.

-RN

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