Re: Auto installdirs
[email protected] (Eric Wilhelm)
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# from Ken Williams
# on Thursday 06 March 2008 18:22:
> INSTALLDIRS => ($] >= 5.009004 ? 'perl' : 'site'), #C
>
>Now, does that do everything we'd want?
No, it still does the wrong thing whenever site and vendor are in the
right order.
# from Michael G Schwern
# on Wednesday 27 February 2008 12:40:
>>> 3. dual-life modules have a habit of doing the wrong thing on
>>> debian
>>
>>They should be setting INSTALLDIRS=site and --installdirs=site in
>> their CPAN shell configurations. That would solve the problem. I
>> believe they do, at least in the default configurations.
I think this still falls into the "mass education" category, so if we're
going to have a method, it should check @INC and just use site if site
has precedence.
--Eric
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