Re: What am I doing wrong? A bad end-user experience

On Thursday 10 September 2026 22:45:34 (+01:00), Lukas Mai wrote:

 > On 10.09.26 13:48, Paul "LeoNerd" Evans wrote:
 > > This exact problem of "argh all my perl is broken" is going to happen
 > > to anyone doing this kind of setup, whenever system perl gets updated.
 > > So someone, please tell me, what am I doing wrong here? I cannot
 > > believe that this is the intended behaviour of the system we have.
 > > Alternatively, maybe this is as good as can currently be achieved. If
 > > so then I really don't like it, and I think we could do a lot better.
 > I believe all of these problems could be sidestepped by making sure all 
perls involved are configured with -Duseversionedarchname. See
 > <https://perldoc.perl.org/perl5180delta#Configuration-and-Compilation>.
 > 
 > Obviously that doesn't help with a distribution perl that wasn't 
compiled with this option (and I wasn't even aware this option existed 
before today). So I would propose two steps:
 > 
 > 1. Document useversionedarchname. Probably in INSTALL.
 > 2. Turn the option on by default.
 > 
 > Hopefully that will increase the likelihood that any future perl you 
encounter will Just Work(tm).
 > 


Ooh that sounds useful! *hunts gentoo ebuild*..

Jess