Hi Dan, in Debian, we have received a request to run 'enc2xs -C' after installation of Encode::HanExtra (any Encode::*, really) so that applications can make use of all installed encodings without worrying too much about which are available and which may be required by any of the modules the application depends upon.
We think this is a reasonable request and we've started to discuss how to implement this at https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=841076 However, we wanted to ask you about your thoughts on running 'enc2xs -C' on every (de-)installation of any Encode::* module. Is that a sensible thing to do in all circumstances, on all machines running Debian as part of the system Perl installation? We notice that 'enc2xs -C' is not run as part of the installation of Encode itself, and the documentation doesn't really sound like it's something every user of Encode should know about and use? Thank you for any insight on the status of 'enc2xs -C' you might like to share. Florian
