-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Perl module installation dirs Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 21:51:22 -0400 From: Justin Davis <jrcd83@gmail.com> To: Florian Pritz <bluewind@xinu.at> Here is a short response to your RFC. I cannot post to the arch-dev-public mailing list. The vendor arch specific directory, in accordance with the Arch Way(tm), should stay un-versioned. Why? Not just for principles. The reason is that I think it is more important to be obviously, unambiguously, totally hosed, b0rked, broken, rather than be quietly broken and appear perfectly normal. This is simply from my own experience trying to troubleshoot problems. If you version the vendor dirs the following scenario will play out. People will upgrade perl. No sigfaults, yay! Then they will wonder why perl says their modules are not installed, when pacman says that, yes indeed they are. Which modules? They don't quite know. Heck, they might not even notice until a week after they upgrade. In the end the result will be the same, they will still need to reinstall and/or rebuild modules, but it will be less obvious what the problem is. core_perl has no reason to versioned as far as I understand it. There can be only one! But yes, please... for the love of all that is holy, version the site_perl directory. -- -Justin