Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr> writes:
> Hi,
> 3 weeks ago I posted a proposal to properly handle path in perl module
> packages (see http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2000/08/03/0003.html).  
> So far the only comments I got were from Hubert, and he was happy with it.
> So if noone object I'll commit these changes (along with the few things
> Hubert suggested) and start convert packages.

I recently updated textproc/eperl on 15 August to deal with this
problem, since I had perl-5.6.0 installed and was unwilling to
downgrade to perl-5.004_04.  From the commit log for
textproc/eperl/Makefile:

    Make this work and de-install properly with perl5 + perl5-current.

    Include code in the Makefile to show how to use the installed .packlist
    to dynamically generate a PLIST for this package.  I couldn't use the
    solution proposed on tech-pkg since eperl installed some stuff in
    ${PERL5_SITELIB} under perl-5.00404, but in ${PERL_SITEARCH} under
    perl-5.6.0.  I imagine other modules will also show this difficulty
    since the Makefile for eperl was generated by ExtUtils::MakeMaker, so I
    think the .packlist way is the right thing to do.

That the files were installed in different places (SITELIB/SITEARCH)
made it impossible for me to use the suggestion that you had outlined
in your proposal.  Perhaps you could comment on the alternative
solution I cobbled together for using the installed .packlist to
generate a PLIST.

	Thanks,

     -- Johnny C. Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>
        Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
        http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~lamj/