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> On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 06:25:33 +1100 (EST), Nathan Scott wrote:
>
> >> PS. Nathan, what's the point of splitting stuff in src/cpan into a
> >> separate package and at the same time shipping perl pmdas in the
> >> main
> >> one?
>
> nathans> It allows separation of build dependencies for layered
> nathans> builds. There's a logical hierarchy of libpcp/libpcp_pmda
> nathans> -> PCP::PMDA -> pcp and anyone building their own PMDAs
> nathans> outside of PCP doesn't need to install pcp for their builds.
>
> When we need a prereq from pcp for perl-PCP-PMDA - without it
> perly pmdas are useless. Or all perlies must go to a separate package
> which will prereq perl-PCP-PMDA.
>
I'm not really seeing any advantages to yet-another-package ... perl is
ubiquitous right? Its good to know that for all PCP installs, the perl
PMDAs are available IMO (esp. since there are now almost as many script
PMDAs as binary PMDAs).
cheers.
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Nathan
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