Re: How To Build A Perl Package Database

[email protected] ("Philippe Bruhat (BooK)")
Newsgroups perl.cpan.workers
Message-ID <20130104234840.GD12872@swoosh>
On Sat, Jan 05, 2013 at 10:33:04AM +1100, Adam Kennedy wrote:
> I'll say it a second time...
> 
> Packlist 2.0
> 
> Take MYMETA, add an extra key with the list that will be installed, intall
> it in the usual place as we do now.
> 
> Package manager scans the filesystem for the packlist files.
> 

Or the distribution -> packlist index can be store in a well known location
(top of the install directory I suppose).

> Might seem slow, but on SSDs scanning the filesystem like that is super
> super fast.

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