-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: arch-dev-public-bounces@archlinux.org [mailto:arch-dev-public- bounces@archlinux.org] Namens K. Piche Verzonden: woensdag 9 januari 2008 5:27 Aan: Public mailing list for ArchLinux development Onderwerp: Re: [arch-dev-public] Updated perl 5.10.0
There can be three different versions of a perl module co-existing without file conflicts (well except for man pages, shh!). It's basically like the $PATH variable but in perl it's called @INC. So when I say "updated" I mean that a package or CPAN-installed module are in the PATH before the perl package's modules.
Hope that made sense.
In the ideal world we would have versioned conficts and replaces options available in PKGBUILD. This means that perl with an included package can replace an installed perl package which is below or at the version included in perl. Maybe something for pacman 3.2?