Re: [PATCH resend] perl/Makefile.PL: teach makefiles about possible old Error.pm files

From: Chris Frey <cdfrey@foursquare.net>
Date: May 22, 2008, 18:12 UTC
Message-ID: <20080522181240.GA12725@foursquare.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vd4new8qx.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 10:26:14AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> > I guess I take the view that anything _installed_ by git is a part of git.
> > If git installs Error.pm, it can't expect the user to keep it around
> > if he uninstalls that version of git.
> 
> True, as we do not give "uninstall" target.  That's what distros are for.

I don't see how you can say "true" to what I said and keep git doing the exact opposite. :-)

Anyway, there are other ways to fix this than INSTALLED_BY and I'm not married to that idea, but if this isn't seen as a problem in the first place, there's little use.

Would you accept a patch to the INSTALL file explaining this dependency?

Thanks,
- Chris