On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 03:49:07PM +0100, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 07:05:24AM -0700, Joel Bion via lfs-dev wrote:
> > Upgrading Perl was the trigger for me building my own package dependency
> > tracker utility. With tons of manual configuration, I am able to upgrade
> > any subset of packages at one time. It tells me what I need to rebuild, in
> > what order. Some packages trigger no or few rebuilds. Others, like OpenSSL,
> > trigger a few dozen. Python 3 might trigger 100. Perl is crazy; it triggers
> > 100s.
> >
> > Each package has a build script I’ve written. If I ever get around to it,
> > I’ll make it generate a super-script that involves unpacking the tar files,
> > so I can just automate the whole build.
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> I won't complain about top-posting in the light of that last line!
>
> You must build a _lot_ more than I do: I've got several non-book
> perl modules which I sometimes build, and there are a few modules in
> the book which I never build, but in the perl directory of my
> scripts I only have 150 modules.
>
I suppose it depends how you define a module, I was counting
tarballs. Now that I've looked at the plain perl modules that are
now in /usr/share I found over 500 '*.pm' in site_perl.
ĸen
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