Overriding core modules...

[Ralf Corsepius]

Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> On 03/23/2009 02:01 PM, Chris Weyl wrote:
>   
>> So, a couple days ago I packaged up and submitted perl-autodie, with an
>> eye towards geting perl-Git-CPAN-Patch in.  autodie provides a new
>> Fatal.pm that needs to override core Fatal; which is easy enough now
>> that we have[1] @INC basically matching site, vendor, core in F-9+. 
>> AFACIT the new Fatal is cleanly usable in any Fedora situation without
>> needing code modifications on the user's part, is only installed when
>> someone actively chooses to install it (or something else pulls it in as
>> a prereq), doesn't conflict with any files owned by any other package,
>> and doesn't need any deep magic to get it working.
>>     
>
> Ehh, I'm not really thinking that overriding core Fatal is a good idea
> here.
Well, IMHO, that's _way_ to weakly phrased.

>  Especially not in a Fedora package. Why doesn't it just namespace
> it (e.g. autodie-Fatal.pm)?
>
>   
Agreed.

=> different explicit "use/requires".
=> only modules explicitly "use/require"-ing this module would be affected.

An alternative would be to postpone integration of this package into 
Fedora until core's Fatal.pm has been updated to meet this package's 
requirements.

Ralf