Re: Auto installdirs

Eric Wilhelm wrote:
> # 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.

Mass education is not necessary, it's something the vendor can (and do) take 
care of.  Module::Build is a bit of a problem because most vendors are 
shipping a stock 5.8.8 which comes with a CPAN.pm that doesn't understand 
Module::Build, so they're not setting --installdirs=site as the default, but 
that will be fixed with time.


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