Re: Arch-independent parts of binary modules of interpreted languages

2007-08-11 Thread Joey Hess
Raphael Hertzog wrote: > The rationale is simply that it's not always easily doable while using the > official installation methods, and that changing it manually is > error-prone and can be confusing in some cases. > > While it's important that all files in /usr/share be arch-independent > (becaus

Re: Arch-independent parts of binary modules of interpreted languages

2007-08-09 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 09 Aug 2007, Magnus Holmgren wrote: > (Please don't start a debate over what an interpreted language is, I just > tried to generalize the subject.) > > Perl XS module packages usually install all their code under /usr/lib/perl5 - > not just the shared library that implements the external

Arch-independent parts of binary modules of interpreted languages

2007-08-09 Thread Magnus Holmgren
(Please don't start a debate over what an interpreted language is, I just tried to generalize the subject.) Perl XS module packages usually install all their code under /usr/lib/perl5 - not just the shared library that implements the external subroutine, but also at least one ordinary module, w